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MADAGASCAR
Worth Looking For
Guide to Birds of Madagascar
• Olivier Langrand
FIELD GUIDE •
1990 •
HARD COVER
• 456 PAGES
• COMING IN
For those seriously interested in birds, this comprehensive guide is a worthwhile investment. Thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated, it shows and describes in detail all of the island's bird life. The excellent introductory chapters include a discussion of evolution and ecology, check-lists by region and an overview of habitats, parks and the avifauna.
(MAD06, $80.00) |
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Lords and Lemurs
• Alison Jolly
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 310 PAGES
• COMING IN
An overview of the people, history and wildlife of Berenty, a reserve on the Mandrare river in Madagascar's thorny south, by a favorite author. This wonderful, personal book is subtitled "Mad Scientists, Kings With Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar." Lemurologist Alison Jolly looks back on a lifetime of research and friendship among the Malagasy in this surprisingly personal account of her field work. She weaves tales of sifakas, lepilemurs and their kind with stories of the neighboring Tandroy people, and the formidable Monsieur de Heaulme, who had the foresight to set aside the land as a reserve.
(MAD37, $25.00) |
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The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar
• Peter Tyson
NATURAL HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 375 PAGES
• COMING IN
A far-ranging, journalistic report on the cultural and natural history of Madagascar. Tyson tags along with several researchers, interweaving an account of their work with travelogue, history and ecology.
(MAD22, $14.00) |
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Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar
• Christopher Knight
• Kathryn Lasky
NATURAL HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 64 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
• COMING IN
Geared for middle-schoolers, this book by the team of Lasky and Christopher Knight (photographer) shows off not only the photogenic lemurs but also captures the pleasures of ecology by focusing on the field work of primatologist Alison Jolly.
(MAD18, $10.00) |
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Key Environments Madagascar
• Alison Jolly
NATURAL HISTORY •
1984 •
HARD COVER
• 239 PAGES
• COMING IN
Though published in 1984, this valuable handbook includes long review articles on the biogeography of the island and its flora and fauna, each illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps.
(MAD13, $77.50) |
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Madagascar: A World Out of Time
• Frans Lanting
NATURAL HISTORY •
HARD COVER
• 144 PAGES
One of the world's leading photographers of wildlife and the natural environment reveals not only the astonishing beauty of this unique and diverse land, but also strikingly uncovers the wrenching conflicts between changing cultures and fragile eco-systems.
(MAD52, $) |
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Muddling Through in Madagascar
• Dervla Murphy
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 269 PAGES
• FAVORITE
• COMING IN
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, $) |
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The Aye-Aye and I
• Gerald Durrell
NATURAL HISTORY •
1994 •
PAPER
• 175 PAGES
• COMING IN
The engaging and extremely amusing story of a serious scientific effort to retrieve, and help save, the rare aye-aye of Madagascar, an unusual mammal bearing a certain resemblance to E.T. Durrell is at his best in a story that roams from market to forest, but never loses sight of the ultimate aim of saving this endangered species.
(MAD10, $14.95) |
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