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Thank You, Madagascar: The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly

Thank You, Madagascar: The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly
  • Author(s): Alison Jolly
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Madagascar is one of the world’s natural jewels, with over ninety per cent of its wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Few people knew it better than the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, Alison Jolly. Thank You, Madagascar is her...

The Sloth Lemur’s Song

The Sloth Lemur’s Song
  • Author(s): Alison Richard
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet,...

Madagascar – The Eight Continent

Madagascar – The Eight Continent
  • Author(s): Peter Tyson
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Whether meeting a leaf-tailed gecko eye to eye… or describing conservation issues and local customs, Peter Tyson provides the most enjoyable book on the natural and cultural history of Madagascar I have ever read.’ George B. Schaller, Wildlife Conservation...

Muddling Through in Madagascar

Muddling Through in Madagascar
  • Author(s): Dervla Murphy
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Murphy travels through this island (which incidentally is the 4th largest island in the world) with her teenage daughter and this is an account of their experiences.

The Descent

The Descent
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Africa, Australia, Bora Bora, Madagascar, Panama Canal
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Future
  • Era(s): Late 21st century

Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to parents fleeing the devastation in search for a refuge in the Southern Ocean. Growing up in a world forever changed, his only connection to the events...

The Sapphire Sea (A Gemstone Thriller)

The Sapphire Sea (A Gemstone Thriller)
  • Author(s): John B Robinson
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Teeming with perilous, exotic locales and widespread examples of social injustice, this bold adventure follows one man’s plight to seek his fortune while commenting on the widespread social and economic effects of the African gem trade. Plagued by a...

Hot Ice

Hot Ice
  • Author(s): Nora Roberts
  • Location(s): Madagascar, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Romance

Doug Lord is on the run, gangster Dimitri is in hot persuit. On the run, Doug jumps into Whitney McAllister’s cab in NYC, and she joins him as a partner, an escape from her regimented life as an ice...

Around Madagascar On My Kayak

Around Madagascar On My Kayak
  • Author(s): Riaan Manser
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2006

In the last five years Riaan Manser has re-written the definition of tenacity and become the epitome of determination. Riaan rose to prominence when he became the first person to cycle around the entire perimeter of Africa. For over...

Beyond the Rice Fields

Beyond the Rice Fields
  • Author(s): Naivo
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 19th-century

Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have shared a tender intimacy since her father bought the young boy who’d been ripped away from his family after their forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice...

For the Love of Lemurs: My Life in the Wilds of Madagascar

For the Love of Lemurs: My Life in the Wilds of Madagascar
  • Author(s): Patricia Chapple Wright
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

In 1986, primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright was given a seemingly impossible task: to travel to the rainforests of Madagascar and find the greater bamboo lemur, a species that hadn’t been seen in the wild for thirty years. Not only...

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