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Ghost of Chance

Ghost of Chance
  • Author(s): William S. Burroughs
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1700

Ghost of Chance is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, “the only American writer possessed by genius.” While tripping...

Kintana and the Captain’s Curse

Kintana and the Captain’s Curse
  • Author(s): Susan Brownrigg, Jennifer Czerwonka (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): 1730s

Ahoy there! The Nine Sails is casting off for Madagascar so all aboard for a treasure hunt you’ll never forget! Kintana has grown up listening to stories of life at sea from her pa, an ex-pirate turned pet shop...

Lords and Lemurs

Lords and Lemurs
  • Author(s): Alison Jolly
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chronicles the rich human, plant, and animal diversity of this Isle off the East Coast of Africa, home to lemurs, unusual reptiles, and other creatures more at home in mythology than natural science.

The Eden Legacy

The Eden Legacy
  • Author(s): Will Adams
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams’s fourth pulse-pounding adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox. Welcome to Eden. Population: Zero. After she finds out her estranged father and sister are missing from their coastal nature reserve in Madagascar, TV zoologist...

The Gardens of Mars

The Gardens of Mars
  • Author(s): John Gimlette
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

An improbable world beckons. We think we know Madagascar but it’s too big, too eccentric, and too impenetrable to be truly understood. If it was stretched out across Europe, the islands would reach from London to Algiers, and yet...

The Pirate’s Son

The Pirate’s Son
  • Author(s): Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

When fourteen-year-old Nathan’s father dies, leaving him penniless, Tamo, the son of a famous pirate, invites him and his sister Maud on a fabulous and dangerous trip to Madagascar.

The Song of the Dodo

The Song of the Dodo
  • Author(s): David Quammen
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

David Quammen’s book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message — a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural...

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