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There have been times for meteoric marvels and times for gentle breeze

Vanilla Table is a culinary celebration of all things vanilla

engraved illustrations bring to life Earth's spectacular "Wonder Garden

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The Last Colonial Simon Mendez There have been times forAn autobiography in essays that conjures up a truly unique portrait of a world that is fast disappearing. Christopher 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. From these beginnings