Bret Wallach's Itinerant Geographer
A continuing series of geographical essays by Bret Wallach, a retired geography professor at the University of Oklahoma.
For photographs of the places discussed, see Wallach's photograph collection at greatmirror.com
For visually attractive transcripts, see Bret Wallach's Itinerant Geographer on Substack.
Bret Wallach's Itinerant Geographer
The Future of Rice Production in Sri Lanka (2005)
I had a 6-month Fulbright to Peradeniya University, a few miles from Kandy, Sri Lanka. One day I was talking for some forgotten reason with the editor of The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities. He said he needed something to fill the 2005 issue and asked if I had anything he might use. I gave him this. It appeared under the title "The Paddy Lands of the Kandy District." The editor made no changes except replacing the pronoun you with the pronoun one. "This is a humanities journal," he explained.
For photos, see the Sri Lanka collection at GreatMirror.com