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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, Richard Pomeroy (Illustrator)
Helena Drysdale was leaving for Madagascar when family papers in a crumbling house in Devon revealed that her ancestors traded there during the nineteenth century. There were hints of piracy and slave trading. Madagascar was not their only haunt: there was also Zanzibar, with its plump sultans, and the Comoro Islands. Helena, and her photographe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780241129548
ISBN-10: 0241129540
Publication Date: 6/27/1991
Pages: 270
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Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Book Type: 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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