From Village Boy To Global Citizen Volume 2 The Travels Of A Journalist

Author : Shelton A. Gunaratne
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 147714238X
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Village Boy to Global Citizen (Volume 2): The Travels of a Journalist written by Shelton A. Gunaratne and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes and dramatizes the most memorable places visited, often with accompanied family members, since leaving the country of his birth in 1966. Author notes: After my retirement in 2007, I found the time to compile this travelogue using the notes in my diaries and updating the material through online research, with particular help from the constantly revised Wikipedia entries. In this process, I learned to make each travel essay an evergreen that would not perish soon after its publication as in the case of newspaper travel pieces. Travel has shaped my personality. Global travel to get to know culturally diverse people was one of my childhood ambitions. Moreover, travel is an essential aspect of a journalists life. Therefore, my travels constitute a very important part of my autobiography. I included detail in the hope that the reader would keep this volume for long-term reference. My explorations of U.S. national parks and my camping expeditions should be of particular interest to family oriented travelers.

Author : SHELTON A. GUNARATNE
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477142428
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Village Boy to Global Citizen (Volume 1): The Life Journey of a Journalist written by SHELTON A. GUNARATNE and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Village Boy to Global Citizen (Volume 1): The Journey of a Journalist is the first of an autobiographical trilogy that tells the story of a rustic lad born and raised in the southern tip of the British colony of Ceylon (now independent Sri Lanka) but left his country at the age of 26 on a geographical “conquest” of the world that turned him metaphorically into a global citizen. Starting his professional career as a journalist for the Daily News, Ceylon’s premier English-language daily, he became a journalism teacher at the age of 32, when he received a doctorate in mass communication. However, he continued practicing journalism as a free-lancer throughout his teaching career in Malaysia, Australia and the United States. Volume 1 unfolds the transition of the author’s life from a village kid to a global journalist and educator. It dramatizes the obstacles he had to overcome, as well as the support he received from his benefactors, in the transition.

Author : Arcadius
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475939576
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Life in the Forties written by Arcadius and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Shelton A. Gunaratne was born in January of 1940 in Pathegama, Sri Lanka, life was simple for the poor people in this sparsely populated village. But it was this village that raised him. Through twenty-six biographical sketches of some of the villages most colorful characters, Gunaratne paints a portrait of what life was like in this rural setting. This collection of sketches, first published in the Ceylon Daily NewsMyna, the new village head-man; Vel Vidane, an unctuous official and the irrigation headman; cowards Wala Semba and Naamba; Singappuru Basunnehe, the goldsmith; Kankanama, the cinnamon peeler; Kalu Appu, the fierce burglar; Redi Nenda, the humble washerwoman; Menike Nenda, a village beauty; and Kunu Nachchile, the witchlike animal lover. Demonstrating the Buddhist/Daoist principle that unity and diversity are inextricably interconnected, Village Life in the Forties provides not only a social history, but also a greater global under-standing of the life and times of rural Ceylonese during and around World War II.

Author : Benjamin Ajak
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395999
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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