Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art Panther is a novel about

Panther is a novel about that familiar

Italians-much like Sri Lankans- live at home through marriage

(Winner of  the Gratiaen Prize - 2020)

Covers all 468 species of bird recoded in Sri Lanka

a fulfilling career and an adoring boyfriend

Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art Panther is a novel aboutJacob Gotfried Haafner (17541809) was one of the most popular European travel writers of the early nineteenth century, writing in the Romantic mode. A Dutch citizen, Haafner spent more than twenty years of his early life living outside of Europe, in India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Java, and South Africa. Books like his popular Travels in a Palanquin were translated into the major European languages, and his essays against the work of Christian missionaries