Blogs in July 2020

Ghost of Chance 3rd July 2020

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...

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Beyond the Rice Fields 3rd July 2020

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...

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Around Madagascar On My Kayak 26th June 2020

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...

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Hot Ice 1st January 1970

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...

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Muddling Through in Madagascar 1st January 1970

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.

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