The View from Serendip
by Arthur C.Clarke

Accounts by Arthur C.Clarke of some of his experiences in the country in which he is its most famous living foreigner.

The Reefs of Taprobane
by Arthur C.Clarke

‘Clarke’s descriptions of his diving experiences in Ceylon and his non diving experiences in the ancient cities, jungles and monasteries of what became his adopted country and in which he could escape “from the tyranny of the typewriter”.

The Man-Eater of Punanai: A Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old Ceylon
by Christopher Ondaatje

Autobiographical account of his journeys around Sri Lanka with his father in the 1940’s but set as a trip to Punanai where a man eating tiger lived in the 1920’s.

The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon
by Sir Samuel W.Baker

The Nuwara Eliya founder's experience of hunting,shooting and fishing in Ceylon.

Images of Sri Lanka through American Eyes
by H.A.I.Goonetileke

A selected anthology of American writers' reflections on 19th and 20th century Ceylon.

Great Days: Memoirs of a Ceylon Government Medical Officer of 1918
by P.R.C. Peterson

Memoirs of a Burgher doctor from a lost generation which captures the unconscious multi-ethnic nature of Ceylon which is lacking in modern day Sri Lanka.