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Bradt Guide Madagascar  •  Hilary Bradt GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 468 PAGES • FAVORITE A personal, comprehensive guide to Madagascar, its history, culture and natural history -- and our model for how to write a good guidebook. The first -- and still the best -- guide to Madagascar for culturally and environmentally aware travelers, this eighth edition was once again revised, updated and reviewed by Hilary Bradt herself along with sundry specialists and experts. With photographs, 47 sketch maps and wonderfully wise and detailed travel information. (MAD08, $27.99)
Odyssey Guide Seychelles  •  Sarah Carpin  •  Paul Turcotte GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 232 PAGES A colorful and informative guide to the islands, with background on history and culture, and plenty of practical information. Illustrated with color photographs, the book also includes a number of handy local maps. (SEY09, $22.95)
The Song of the Dodo  •  David Quammen NATURAL HISTORY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 700 PAGES This far-ranging book is part travelogue, part natural history essay and an excellent example of science reporting. Not just a book of intellectual adventure, it is a superb, detailed overview of the science of island biogeography. A talented writer and formidable researcher, Quammen is a master at explaining complex evolutionary phenomena with humor, wit and understanding. In this book, Quammen takes us from university offices to the rain forests of Brazil, the island of Komodo in Indonesia, among the lemurs in Madagascar and, perhaps most memorably, to the island of Mauritius where the dodo once roamed the forest floor. Eight years in the making, Song of the Dodo is a masterwork: forceful, clearly written and engaging. (CON05, $22.00)
The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean  •  Paddy Ryan  •  Peter Atkinson NATURAL HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 184 PAGES An illustrated overview of coral reefs, coral reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, this compact book is an excellent resource for anyone thinking of exploring the underwater world. Beginners will appreciate the chapters on learning to snorkel, reef etiquette, photography hints and first aid. With 200 color photographs. (DIV18, $19.95)
Fishwatcher's Field Guide Indian Ocean  •  Idaz Greenberg FIELD GUIDE •  PLASTIC CARD This double-sided plastic card shows 70 of the most commonly encountered reef fish of the Indian Ocean in full-color illustrations, convenient for the boat or beach. It's even got a hole punched in it to hang around your neck while snorkeling. (FG17, $7.50)

Madagascar Map  •  Freytag & Berndt    •  A clear shaded relief map of Madagascar at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (MAD12, $12.95)
Bradt Guide Maldives  •  Royston Ellis   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical, personal guide in the far-ranging British series. Third edition. (IDA296, $22.95)
Bradt Guide Mauritius, Rodriques & Reunion  •  Royston Ellis  •  Derek Schuurman   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to Mauritius and the Mascarenes for the independent traveler, with excellent suggestions for where to go and what to do, and practical advice for getting around. (MTS01, $22.95)
Bradt Guide Seychelles  •  Lyn Mair  •  Lynnath Beckley   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A detailed overview of Seychelles, its history, wildlife, culture and major attractions in the series by Bradt. Geared for the independent traveler, it includes maps, town plans, and lots of practical travel information. (SEY21, $23.99)
Footprint Sri Lanka Handbook  •  Edward Aves   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide by the respected British publisher of the South American Handbook, this completely revised handbook is an excellent introduction to the geography, culture and history of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. (SRL06, $21.95)
Odyssey Guide Maldives, Kingdom of a Thousand Isles  •  Andrew Forbes   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This nicely illustrated Odyssey guide highlights the nature, history and culture of the islands alongside practical information. With 102 color photos and 12 maps. (MLD02, $22.95)
Spectrum Guide to Maldives  •  Interlink Books   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and well written, this is an excellent overview of the history, nature and attractions of the Maldives. It features great maps and a good overview of marine life, culture, history and economics. (AFR55, $22.95)
Spectrum Guide to Mauritius  •  Camerapix   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent overview of the history, nature and attractions of Mauritius (MTS03, $19.95)
Journey to Mauritius  •  Bernardin de Saint-Pierre  •  Jason Wilson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A lyrical account of colonial society, daily life and nature in Mauritius, newly translated and with an introduction by Jason Wilson. (MTS06, $15.00)
Lords and Lemurs  •  Alison Jolly   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Lemurologist Jolly looks back on a lifetime of research and friendship among the Malagasy in this warmly personal account of her field work at Berenty, a small private reserve on the Mandrare River in Madagascar's thorny south. (MAD37, $25.00)
Muddling Through in Madagascar  •  Dervla Murphy   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  This entertaining and culturally astute writer has made hard travel to remote places a cottage industry. In this travelogue, she roams the Malagasy countryside with her 14-year-old daughter, commenting on the people and places she encounters. (MAD05, $16.95)
Sea of Poppies  •  Amitav Ghosh   • LITERATURE  •  Ghosh conjures the tumult of the 19th-century Opium Wars and colonial India in this expansive tale, featuring a motley cast of British, Chinese and Indian characters. (IDA529, $26.00)
The Book of Color  •  Julia Blackburn   • LITERATURE  •  Blackburn richly evokes the 19th-century colonial Indian Ocean in this haunting novel of madness, slavery and racism, which memorably opens on the island of La Digue in the Seychelles. (MTS02, $15.00)
The Books of Secrets  •  M.G. Vassanjii   • LITERATURE  •  Intrigue, history and politics along East Africa's Swahili Coast. The many machinations of this prize-winning novel revolve around the discovery of a 1913 diary of a British colonial administrator in Dar es Salaam. (EAF65, $15.00)
The Mauritius Command  •  Patrick O'Brian   • LITERATURE  •  The rousing tale of a mission to the Mascarene Islands to take Rodriguez, Mauritius and Reunion from the French and install a proper British governor. It's the fourth of the series of hugely popular Aubrey-Maturin novels. (SEY18, $14.95)
A Fish Caught in Time, The Search for the Coelacanth  •  Samantha Weinberg   • SCIENCE  •  The tale of the five-foot-long, lobe-finned fish, long-thought extinct, but discovered alive off the coast of South Africa in 1938. Most of the subsequent specimens have been found off the Comoro Islands in the Mozambique Channel. (BST53, $13.95)
Diving in the Indian Ocean  •  Jack Jackson   • NATURAL HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A lavish visual celebration of 95 underwater sites from the Seychelles and Maldives to the Red Sea, Bali, Burma and Western Australia. (DIV38, $35.00)
Lost Land of the Dodo, The Ecological History of Mauritius, Reunion, and Rodrigues  •  Julian Hume  •  Anthony Cheke   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Uninhabited until the 1500s, the arrival of humans rapidly devastated the diverse, endemic wildlife of the Mascarenes, including of not just the famous dodo but also giant tortoises, parrots, skinks, geckos, burrowing boas, and flightless rails and herons. (MTS08, $55.00)
The Aye-Aye and I  •  Gerald Durrell   • NATURAL HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  The engaging and extremely amusing story of a serious scientific effort to retrieve, and help save, the rare aye-aye of Madagascar. (MAD10, $15.00)
Birds of Madagascar, A Photographic Guide  •  Pete Morris   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An excellent photographic guide to the birds of Madagascar, featuring 500 color photographs and good descriptive text covering 280 species. It includes sections of identification, where to find the species, and best birding sites. (MAD16, $50.00)
Birds of the Seychelles  •  Adrian Skerrett  •  Tony Disley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive guide the birds of the Seychelles, featuring the 66 breeding species, regular visitors and likely variants. The 250 species are described and illustrated in color plates. (SEY17, $55.00)
Coral Reef Fishes  •  Ewald Lieske  •  Robert Myers   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This compact handbook features 2,500 illustrations of shallow-water fishes around the world. (DIV05, $24.95)
Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide  •  Gerald Allen  •  Roger Steene   • FIELD GUIDE • COMING IN  •  This comprehensive identification guide to coral reef fishes and invertebrates from Hawaii to the Red Sea features 1,800 color photographs. (DIV48, $40.00)
Madagascar Wildlife: A Visitors Guide  •  Hilary Bradt  •  Nick Garbutt  •  Derek Schuurman   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This handy guide describes and illustrates in color photographs 250 species of Malagasy animals, not just the lemurs, fossas and other endemic mammals but also birds, reptiles and invertebrates. With chapters on habitats, ecology and conservation. Third edition. (MAD07, $25.99)
Marine Invertebrates Indian Ocean and the Central Pacific  •  Idaz Greenberg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This double-sided plastic card shows 50 of the most commonly encountered marine invertebrates of the Indian Ocean in full-color illustrations, convenient for snorkeling trips. (DIV15, $7.50)