Blogs in July 2020

For the Love of Lemurs: My Life in the Wilds of Madagascar 3rd July 2020

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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The Eden Legacy 3rd July 2020

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...

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Lords and Lemurs 3rd July 2020

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.

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The Song of the Dodo 3rd July 2020

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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The Pirate’s Son 3rd July 2020

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.

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