The story unfolds in absorbing, convincingly re-created settings: Paris (including its notorious sewers), Cairo, Shanghai and Ceylon.
For example, one setting in this book is Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka, a major tea-growing region.
For years after its post-World War II independence then-Ceylon tried outright socialism.
She gave the country its present Sinhalese name, changing it from Ceylon.
The leading Muslim religious leaders' group, the All Ceylon Jamiyathul Ulama, has warned against violence by strikers and says Muslims should fast instead.
He relies on cinnamon from Ceylon, and vanilla from Mexico, Tahiti, and Madagascar, which is then mixed in-house for just the right notes.
The government of Mahinda Rajapakse, Sri Lanka's president, has been hit by the apparent withdrawal of a minor coalition partner, the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC).
All three had been given by the artist to the Reverend John Farr of Gillingham, Norfolk, and inherited by his son Thomas, who moved to Ceylon circa 1868.
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Chinese fleets scoured the Indian Ocean, visiting Indonesia, Ceylon, even the Red Sea and Africa-where they picked up giraffes and brought them back to the amazement of the people back home.
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There was also Kipling's comic verse, including an example written on a ship sailing from Adelaide to Ceylon, Sri Lanka, which is thought to have been read aloud by Kipling to those around him.
He and his family had already built lighthouses from Wolf Rock in Cornwall to Ceylon, and when he surveyed Fastnet, he quickly realised that the existing tower was built on the wrong part of the rock.
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Having ventured out of the United States precisely once (and then only to Tijuana), she was posted first to India and then to Ceylon, where she met a bristly aesthete ten years her senior named Paul Child.
The famous Spalding baseball tour of 1889 to among other places New Zealand, Ceylon, France and Egypt, where baseball players attempted to throw baseballs over the Great Pyramid, was notorious for not fostering an interest in baseball in the countries they visited.
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