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Dancing with the Dead - A journey through Zanzibar and Madagascar
Dancing with the Dead - A journey through Zanzibar and Madagascar
Author: Helena Drysdale
Helena Drysdale was just about to leave for Madagascar when family papers in a crumbling house in Devon revealed that her ancestors had traded there during the nineteenth century. Madagascar was not their only haunt: there was also Zanzibar and the Comoro Islands. Helena and her photographer husband, Richard Pomeroy, set off to follow in thei...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781590480588
ISBN-10: 1590480589
Publication Date: 3/1/2006
Pages: 296
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Publisher: The Long Riders' Guild Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A really terrific find! There aren't many books on Madagascar out there to begin with, but Drysdale, and her husband, Richard, "go with flow" with the situations encountered, traveling through a culture chock full of "fady" (taboos) - which can (and often do) change from place to place.


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