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perceptive and illuminating

Sections include sowing seeds

It’s a dog-eat-dog world

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The Last Colonial Greg Scott not literally (they're actually prettyAn 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