Robert Knox's An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies (1681) is a foundational work of English travel writing and early ethnography. Combining captivity narrative, geographic description, natural history, and social observation, it offers a remarkably detailed account of the Kandyan kingdom: its government, religion, agriculture, customs, warfare, and domestic life. Knox's prose is plain, empirical, and observant, reflecting the Royal Society's appetite for reliable ...

How this Island lyes with respect unto me Neighbouring Countries, I shall not speak at all, that being to be seen in our ordinary Sea-Cards, which describe those Parts; and but little concerning the Maritime parts of it, now under the Jurisdiction of the Dutch: my design being to relate such things onely that are new and unknown unto these Europæan Nations. It is the Inland Countrey therefore I chiefly intend to write of which is yet an hidden Land even to the Dutch themselves that inhabit...

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Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler-colonialism within the broader historical arc of imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism in the Middle East.Resisting Erasure is a succinct and far-reaching critique of the socio-economic and political forces that sustain the...

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"An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies" by Robert Knox is a captivating account of the author's experiences during his captivity in Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. Knox, an Englishman, was taken prisoner by the local king and spent nearly two decades on the island. His narrative provides a detailed description of the geography, culture, and customs of Ceylon, offering readers a unique perspective on the island's society during the 17th century. Knox's observations ...

Thoreau wrote, "In wildness lies the preservation of the world." In the poems of "Cocktails in the Wild," Robert Knox mixes lyrical reports on the way we live now, praise for civilized values worth preserving, and the occasional rant with an ear for the Thoreauvian thrum at the heart of things, to produce these "Cocktails in the Wild." The poems take us from a balcony in Beirut, a place of beauty, history and danger, to the grim seasons of the American 2016 presidential campaign. We place ...

ALL of us make mistakes. And too many of us carry the guilt and shame associated with those mistakes. These poems (called "sharings" by the author) reflect a man's struggle to accept God's love. And he shares his deep desire for others to know and feel that inexpressible love as he did.