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100 1 $aOndaatje, Christopher.
245 14 $aThe last colonial :$bcurious adventures and stories from a vanishing world /$cChristopher Ondaatje ; images by Ana Maria Pacheco ; [introduction by Michael Holroyd].
260 $aLondon :$bThames & Hudson,$c2011.
300 $a256 p. :$bcol. ill. ;$c24 cm.
520 $aChristopher Ondaatje is a true child of the British Empire. Born in Ceylon in 1933 and brought up on a tea plantation, he was sent as a teenager to boarding school in England. But soon after Ceylon was granted its independence in 1948, his family found themselves destitute, and the young Ondaatje left school and got a job. In 1956 he made his way to Canada with just thirteen dollars in his pocket. From this improbable beginning there followed a series of commercial triumphs until 1988 when he abruptly abandoned high finance at the peak of his career and reinvented himself as an explorer and author, focusing mainly on the colonial period.It is the curious encounters behind these often precarious adventures that make up The Last Colonial.
600 10 $aOndaatje, Christopher.
650 0 $aAdventure and adventurers.
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700 1 $aPacheco, Ana Maria,$d1943-
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