The Gardens of Mars
A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island.
If it was stretched out across Europe, Madagascar 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, sorcerers, gem prospectors, militiamen, rioters, lepers and the descendants of seventeenth-century pirates.
'An utter delight' Benedict Allen
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