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	Christopher Ondaatje
		Christopher Ondaatje was born in Ceylon, was educated in England, and emigrated to Canada in 1956.
		Christopher Ondaatje captures the power of Africa in his photographs as well as in the journal that he kept daily – from the grandeur of Mount Kilimanjaro to the breathtaking vistas of the Ngorongoro Crater, to the endless savannah plains of the Serengeti with its amazing variety of wildlife.
		Christopher Ondaatje’s Sindh Revisited is the extraordinarily sensitive account of the author’s quest to uncover the secrets of the seven years Richard Burton spent in India in the army of the East India Company from 1842 to 1849.
	www.classictravelbooks.com /authors/ondaatje.htm (1221 words)

	Michael Ondaatje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Ondaatje, OC, MA, BA (born September 12, 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy Award winning film, The English Patient.
		Ondaatje received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
		His older brother, Christopher Ondaatje, who also holds the Order of Canada, is a multi-millionaire financier, philanthropist and author of travel books and now lives in the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Ondaatje (455 words)

	Encyclopedia: Christopher Ondaatje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sir Philip Christopher Ondaatje, KBE, OC (born February 22, 1933) is a businessman and author.
		Michael Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje OC (born September 12, 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy Award winning film, The English Patient.
		Sir Christopher Ondaatje KBE,OC (born February 22, 1933) is a businessman and author.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Christopher-Ondaatje (754 words)

	Amazon.ca: Woolf in Ceylon: Books: Christopher Ondaatje
		Ondaatje is well entitled to comment on Woolf- born in Ceylon, the son of a tea planter, the biographer’s early life is a curious mirror image of his subject’s.
		Ondaatje is probably at his best when analysing Woolf’s strange and emotional courtship of Virginia Stephen, whom he saw, with characteristic honesty, as less beautiful than her sister.
		Ondaatje is also heedful of Lytton Strachey’s influence on the couple’s early relationship, as well as of the sensitive issue of Virginia’s sexual abuse as a child by her elder half-brothers Gerald and George Duckworth (published posthumously in Sketches of the Past, presumably not by Duckworth).
	www.amazon.ca /Woolf-Ceylon-Christopher-Ondaatje/dp/0002007185 (1192 words)

	Ondaatje, Christopher: Journey to the Source of the Nile
		Christopher Ondaatje's last book, Sindh Revisited, concerned a journey through what is now largely Pakistan in the footsteps of Richard Francis Burton, the eminent Victorian explorer, linguist, naturalist, Orientalist, historian, pioneer ethnologist, prodigious womanizer and controversial man of letters.
		Ondaatje is acutely conscious of the advantages he has over his predecessors, but these can be summed up as "speed." Ultra-light equipment and the indispensable Land Rover mean that you no longer have to hire 200 bearers and you don't have to walk, or not that much.
		Ondaatje is spared the toil of justifying the expense of his expedition to its backers by returning with valuable data.
	www.ntz.info /gen/b00422.html (1760 words)

	Daddy Sorebucks Christopher Ondaatje has moved to London and given away millions. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Christopher, Michael (10 years younger) and their sister, Janet, loved their father and were appalled by him, by the sourceless changes from bright-eyed, charming and hilarious to a terrifying cloud of violence and threat.
		In Christopher Ondaatje's language, there is a constant drift toward the intemperate and a polarized view of the nature of existence.
		In Ondaatje's mind, or at least as he speaks to me, those habits are concentrated in the figure of Henry Keswick, former owner of The Spectator, Conservative Party grandee and chairman of the National Portrait Gallery's trustees.
	www.tamiltigers.net /tamilcanadian/canada01126.htm (2612 words)

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		Christopher Ondaatje was raised in one of Sri Lanka's most powerful colonial families.
		It was during this period that Ondaatje married his Latvian wife, Valda - someone who "understood the devils" in him, as he writes in the dedication of "Journey to the Source of the Nile" - and brought his younger brother, Michael, to the country.
		He immediately latched onto the literary set," Ondaatje says, "where he set about developing his budding flair for drama and writing." It was a chance for the brothers to reacquaint themselves: "He's 10 years younger than me and we didn't really have a chance to get to know one another in earlier life.
	www.nickryan.net /articles/ondaatje.html (2580 words)

	Royal Geographical Society names Christopher Ondaatje as major benefactor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Royal Geographical Society reveals that philanthropist and businessman Christopher Ondaatje is the name behind the previously anonymous single donation of £1.5 million received earlier this year – the largest private donation in the Society’s history.
		Addressing the Fellows of the Society at the AGM, President Professor Ron Cooke said that it was Ondaatje’s single donation that had inspired other organisations and individuals to support the Society’s Appeal including the refurbishment of the main lecture theatre and opening access to the Society’s archives.
		Christopher Ondaatje commented; "I am very pleased to have been able to help the Royal Geographical Society in their plans for the theatre and their Unlocking the Archives project.
	www.rgs.org /templ.php?page=15med001 (425 words)

	Michael Ondaatje information - Search.com
		Ondaatje received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
		In 1988 Michael Ondaatje was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and two years later became a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		His older brother, Christopher Ondaatje, who also holds the Order of Canada, is a multi-millionaire financier, philanthropist and author of travel books.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Michael_Ondaatje (680 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Features
		Tall and lean, Ondaatje wears his silver hair smoothed on to his skull; his accent is clipped, a curious blend of the post-colonial and trans-Atlantic.
		Ondaatje finds an island much changed, but a place where many still remember Woolf for his first novel, A Village in the Jungle, published shortly after his return to England (he also wrote several short stories set on the island).
		Ondaatje believes he has found the village of the title, long thought to be fictional.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2006/02/12/fea23.html (1588 words)

	Salon.com people \| The other Ondaatje
		It was during this period that Ondaatje married his Latvian wife, Valda -- someone who "understood the devils" in him, as he writes in the dedication of "Journey to the Source of the Nile" -- and brought his younger brother, Michael, to the country.
		He immediately latched onto the literary set," Ondaatje says, "where he set about developing his budding flair for drama and writing." It was a chance for the brothers to reacquaint themselves: "He's 10 years younger than me and we didn't really have a chance to get to know one another in earlier life.
		Recalling the similar passions of his heroes, Ondaatje's drive and obsession are clear in his voice, the past very much alive in his work.
	archive.salon.com /people/feature/2000/05/26/ondaatje/print.html (2651 words)

	Glorious re-opening of one of London's most famous public lecture theatres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ondaatje, the philanthropist and businessman was named earlier this year as the person behind the largest ever single donation received by the Society.
		The re-opening of The Ondaatje Theatre is part of wider plans at the Society for refurbishment and development, including that of public access to the whole of the Society’s unparalleled archives for the first time in over 170 years.
		CHRISTOPHER ONDAATJE – has been a Fellow of the RGS-IBG for a number of years and was elected to the Council two years ago.
	www.rgs.org /templ.php?page=15med006 (536 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 Tuesday - Risk and the devil that drives
		For Christopher Ondaatje, 69, its owner, is nothing if not a self-made man. Someone who had it all, then lost it, before building up a billion-dollar business empire.
		In the flesh, Ondaatje is lean, his silver hair smoothed back onto his skull, his accent clipped, a curious blend of the post-colonial and trans-Atlantic.
		Notwithstanding his brother’s achievements, Ondaatje is an accomplished biographer himself, an expert on the explorers of the Victorian age (he recreated their journeys in his best-selling book, Journey to the Source of the Nile).
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=908682003 (1969 words)

	Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - Christopher Ondaatje Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ondaatje for his own enjoyment and have now been given to the AGNS, together with works for which he has donated purchase funds.
		For some of the latter, the Ondaatje gift was partnered with others, including the Art Sales and Rental Society and the AGNS Volunteer Committee.
		The simple manner in which it is painted and the various visual cues in the picture lead us to believe that this is less an anatomy lesson than a mystery waiting to be revealed.
	www.agns.gov.ns.ca /~agns/collection/4pcondaatje.htm (676 words)

	The other Ondaatje - Salon.com
		Christopher Ondaatje was raised in one of Sri Lanka's most powerful colonial families.
		On May 4, Ondaatje was revealed as the man behind the new $23.4 million expansion of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
		His role as a philanthropist and explorer seems a world away from his beginnings in what was then Ceylon, muses Ondaatje, as we sit and sip strong fl coffee in the opulent surroundings of his Sloane Square apartment.
	dir.salon.com /story/people/feature/2000/05/26/ondaatje/index.html (852 words)

	An ANCHORMAN Exclusive By Dirk
		In Ondaatje's mind, or at least as he speaks to me, those habits are concentrated in the figure of Henry Keswick, former owner of The Spectator, Conservative Party grandee and chairman of the National Portrait Gallery's trustees.
		Christopher Ondaatje, is amazingly the only person who took the trouble to research and go into Beddegama (a jungle today), after Woolf wrote his first novel, the best selling Village in the Jungle, which was published in 1913.
		Ondaatje without a means of completing school, started work in the city of London at the National Bank of India, expecting to come back to Colombo as an Assistant Manager.
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/chrisond.html (5564 words)

	Macleans.ca \| Culture \| Books \| Out of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Christopher Ondaatje -- multi-millionaire financier and philanthropist, Olympic athlete and knight -- is the first to say he's "not the writer" his younger brother Michael is, the better to pre-empt critics who might say it for him.
		Ondaatje's newest, Hemingway in Africa (HarperCollins), is perhaps his finest, combining first-rate scholarship on one of the seminal novelists of the 20th century with intriguing glimpses into Ondaatje's own life.
		Ondaatje, 70, is no fan of Ernest Hemingway the man -- "I detest the braggart" -- but Hemingway the artist is another matter.
	www.macleans.ca /culture/books/article.jsp?content=20031208_70976_70976 (211 words)

	Ondaatje Michael: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Ondaatje is best known for his novels, which also mingle reality and imagination, exploring a variety of cultures and mingling present and past in richly evocative prose.
		The boy is the young Michael Ondaatje years before he emigrated to...reverence the gun of Tom Mix and why Michael Ondaatje and I and millions of others...
		Ondaatje is best known for his novels, which also...ruined Italian villa during World War II, Ondaatje became the first Canadian to win the...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/ondaatje-michael.jsp?l=O&p=1 (1533 words)

	Review - 17th June 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ondaatje's is the largest private donation in the history of the Royal Geographic Society.
		Ondaatje is the scion of Sri Lanka's proud Ondaatje lineage that began with the arrival in Ceylon of a doctor from India, to treat the wife of the first Dutch governor.
		Neville Weeraratne's book Rare Works from Sri Lanka in the Christopher Ondaatje Collection is a catalogue of Ondaatje's acquisitions which includes paintings by the greatest painters of the past and present.
	www.lanka.net /sundayleader/2001/Jun/17/review.html (4283 words)

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		Christopher Ondaatje has spent his life reinventing himself: from wheeler-dealer to financier to patron of the arts.
		Ondaatje is 69 but his body and manner belong to an angular, tensed teenager.
		Christopher, Michael (10 years younger) and their sister, Janet, loved their father and were appalled by him, by the sourceless changes from bright-eyed, charming and hilarious to a terrifying cloud of violence and threat.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/06/02/tlonda02.xml (784 words)

	Sir Christopher Ondaatje: 'I have always identified with predators' - Telegraph
		Ondaatje has tried hard not to be defined by money, yet it sticks to him like gold leaf.
		Ondaatje looks so immaculately patrician, in his lemon fine-wool waistcoat and leather-trimmed hound's-tooth jacket, that you can't imagine him wading through swamp and jungle, being eaten alive by insects, getting malaria, living dangerously.
		Ondaatje is 74, with the passion and enthusiasms of a man half his age.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/10/17/ftchris117.xml (2039 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Hemingway in Africa
		Ondaatje, a retired businessman, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and brother of acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje, retraces Hemingway's treks in Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari.
		Staring down from an airplane at the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Ondaatje redefines the extreme landscape that made the leopard in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" such a powerful symbol of artistic courage.
		Perhaps most importantly, as Ondaatje travels through poached lands and almost-extinct tribal villages, it is easy to envision and understand the tragic differences between today's Africa and the one that dominated Hemingway's imagination.
	www.bookpage.com /0408bp/nonfiction/hemingway.html (348 words)

	Rolex Awards for Enterprise
		Christopher Ondaatje has made some "unexpected but fascinating discoveries", says Lord Selborne, president of the Royal Geographical Society of which Sir Christopher is a council member and benefactor.
		Sir Christopher’s passion for geography and adventure is described in his seven books, including "The Journey to the Source of the Nile" and, most recently, "Hemingway in Africa", in which he recounts how he set out to follow Hemingway’s route through Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
		A member of Canada’s victorious bob-sled team at the 1964 Olympics, Sir Christopher is today a keen cricketer and an enthusiastic supporter of the arts, contributing millions of pounds through the Ondaatje English Foundation and other trusts.
	www.rolexawards.com /jury/jury-86-ondaatje.html (266 words)

	Review \| Woolf in Ceylon by Christopher Ondaatje
		Ondaatje returns to the country of his birth to follow in Woolf's footsteps, and to compare colonial Ceylon with self governing Sri Lanka.
		Born in Ceylon and educated in Britain, Ondaatje emigrated to Canada in 1956.
		Ondaatje is also director of the World Wildlife Fund and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, was named an Officer, Order of Canada in 1993 and was awarded a Knighthood in the Queen's honours list in England in 2003, where he now lives.
	www.januarymagazine.com /biography/woolfceylon.html (711 words)

	6/3/96 INT/SIGHTINGS
		The passion for exotic scenes that eventually took him to the Middle East and the sacred city of Mecca, and to Africa on a search for the source of the Nile, was awakened during the seven years in the 1840s when he was an army officer in India.
		To gain insight into the scholar-adventurer, Canadian entrepreneur and author Christopher Ondaatje, 63, set out on a pilgrimage retracing Burton's travels in the Sindh, which is now a province of Pakistan, and interviewing Burton experts.
		The Ceylon-born Ondaatje was accompanied by Haroon Siddiqui, a Muslim from India who is an editor of the Toronto Star; together they covered thousands of kilometers on a trek that took them more than a century back into India's history.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960603/sightings.html (981 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hemingway in Africa: Books: Christopher Ondaatje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Christopher Ondaatje’s Hemingway in Africa investigates this fascination with a charming mixture of perceptive analysis of Hemingway’s African writings and personal insight into the mind of a complex and driven individual whom Ondaatje both admires and deplores.
		Ondaatje’s own journey through the post-colonial Africa of our time is interwoven with Hemingway’s imperial progress; and the one intriguingly illuminates the other.
		Ondaatje follows the faded trail of Hemingway's safaris in Kenya and Tanzania (then Tanganyika) and puts them in the context of his works and those of other African writers, such as Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham (whose work Hemingway championed).
	www.amazon.ca /Hemingway-Africa-Christopher-Ondaatje/dp/0002006707 (971 words)

	Ondaatje, Christopher: Hemingway In Africa, The Last Safari
		Christopher Ondaatje successfully combines his own explorer's enthusiasm and his love of literature to create a compelling study of Hemingway's fascination with Africa and the writing he based on his experiences.
		Now Sir Christopher Ondaatje, the author of the best selling Sindh Revisited and Journey to the Source of the Nile has produced new material and an intriguing insight into the important African phase of Hemingway's life.
		Africa was an obsession for Hemingway all his life and Ondaatje, through several personal journeys into the both physical and literary aspects of Hemingway's safaris, has produced a startling and controversial documentary of the man and myth.
	www.ntz.info /gen/b00806.html (354 words)

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