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The Gardens of Mars - Madagascar, an Island Story (Paperback)
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The Gardens of Mars - Madagascar, an Island Story (Paperback)
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List price R321
Loot Price R294
Discovery Miles 2 940
You Save R27 (8%)
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A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the
fantastical landscapes, beguiling creatures and isolated tribes of
the world's fourth island: Madagascar. 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 its road network is barely bigger than tiny Jamaica's. There is
no evidence of any human life until about 10,000 years ago, and,
when eventually people settled, it was migrants from Borneo - 3,700
miles away - who came out on top. As well as visiting every corner
of Madagascar, John Gimlette journeys deep into its past in order
to better understand how Madagascar became what it is today. Along
the way, he meets politicians, sorcerors, gem prospectors,
militiamen, rioters, lepers and the descendants of
seventeenth-century pirates.
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