Madagascar

Books in this genre are set in or about Madagascar.

Beyond the Rice Fields
Red Island House
Return to the Enchanted Island
The Aye-Aye and I
Hot Ice
The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar
Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar
Flashman's Lady (The Flashman Papers, #6)
Voices from Madagascar Voix de Madagascar: An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature/Anthologie de littérature francophone contemporaine (Volume 75) (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Ghost of Chance
Muddling through in Madagascar
Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
A History of Madagascar
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Ibonia
Muddling through in Madagascar by Dervla MurphyThe Eighth Continent by Peter TysonMadagascar by Stephen HolgateLost People by David GraeberAntipode by Heather E. Heying
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David Graeber
The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only tall tales and confusion in his wake, is, perhaps, just as much a figure of the Enlightenment as Voltaire or Adam Smith, but he also represents a profoundly proletarian vision of liberation, necessarily violent and ephemeral. Modern factory discipline was born on ships and on plantations. It was only l ...more
David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

William S. Burroughs
The ears were large, flaring forward, the eyes limpid amber, in which the pupil floated like a glittering jewel, changing color with shifts of the light:  obsidian, emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, diamond.
William S. Burroughs, Ghost of Chance

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