Taprobana

The food at Taprobana, a small boutique hotel with nine rooms in the coastal town of Bentota, was so supreme that I begged the chef for a cooking lesson one morning.

Hungering for Tranquility 2009

A huge island called Taprobana dominates the Indian Ocean, and there's no hint of the Americas or the Pacific Ocean; the map simply stops at China.

Wunderkammer Alert Heather McDougal 2007

Taprobana is one of five luxury properties that belong to Sri Lanka's most-famous fashion designer, Taru Bana.

Hungering for Tranquility 2009

A huge island called Taprobana dominates the Indian Ocean, and there's no hint of the Americas or the Pacific Ocean; the map simply stops at China.

Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

The New York Times | Sri Lanka's scars trace lines of war without end Na mítica Taprobana camoniana a realidade é uma de guerra civil violenta e prolongada entre os Tamils e governo cingalês pela independência da península de Jaffna.

Leituras Artur 2007

The Times | Men in black arrive in a white truck and the children disappear A guerra civil no Sri Lanka, a Taprobana do poema de Camões, recrudesceu com contornos ainda mais violentos.

Leituras Artur 2006

Artemidorus, in Taprobana insula longissimam vitam sine vllo corporis languore traduci.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Artemidorus, in Taprobana insula longissimam vitam sine vllo corporis languore traduci.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Trapobana is a misprint for Taprobana, the ancient name of

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

Fa-Hian found a party of merchants just preparing to put to sea with the intention of going to Ceylon; he sailed with them, and in fourteen days landed on the shores of the ancient Taprobana, of which the Greek merchant, Jamboulos, had given a curious account some centuries previously.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866