Madagascar in Bradt’s new Highlights series exploring the country’s most popular places, routes & itineraries as selected by some of the world’s leading travel writers & tour operators. The guide concentrates on trips along the Route Nationale 7 & around Nosy Be & Antananarivo; & tours to the east & southwest of the country. Colour photographs feature throughout the book, useful for identifying indigenous plants & animals. The guide is designed to present readers with the destination’s main highlights & must-see attractions & help travellers select the best route for an organised tour or plan an independent trip, providing practical & useful guidance on making the most of their visit. Individual guides in this series have extensive introductory chapters on History & People, The Natural World, Planning a safari or trip & life On the Ground, providing comprehensive background details about the destination. The ‘ Highlights’ part of the guide focuses on the attraction, sites or experiences that are unique to the region or country. There is detailed advice & recommendations from Bradt’s expert authors, with a focus on things to see & do, although overview listings & individual recommendations are provided, offering accommodation & eating out options. ...

Madagascar at 1:1, 250, 000 from the IGN with cartography from Mair Dumont, with more smaller settlements than on other maps of the whole country. Very effective relief shading, altitude colouring & spot heights present the topography, with colouring and/or graphics for seasonal lakes & swamps, mangrove, sand dunes, rice fields, waterfalls, etc. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. The map indicates unpaved roads &

Includes:: local tracks, showing routes closed to motorized traffic. No intermediate distances are marked. Railway lines & local airports or aerodromes are included. Symbols show various places of interest including campsites, beaches, diving & windsurfing sites, shipwrecks, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals. The map is not indexed. Map legend

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Madagascar at 1: 1, 000, 000 on an indexed, double-sided map from ITMB with a large, clear street plan of central Antananarivo. The maps divides the island north/south with a small overlap between the sides. Topography is presented by bold altitude colouring & spot heights, both in feet. Graphic indicate swamp, wetland & mangrove areas & salt pans. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. The map shows the country’s road network, indicating paved & unsurfaced secondary roads, plus selected tracks. Driving distances are shown on main routes & locations of petrol supplies are marked. Also shown are railway connections, domestic airports & aerodromes/landing fields, & internal administrative boundaries with names of the provinces. Symbols indicate various places of interest, including locations with tourist accommodation, campsites, beaches & surfing sites, historical & archaeological sites, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 2° intervals. Each side has a separate index. Coverage

Includes:: Comoros Islands & Mayotte with ferry routes between the islands & to Madagascar. Also provided is a large, clear street plan of central Antananarivo indicating main places of interest, hotels, various facilities, etc.

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Madagascar at 1:1, 200, 000 on an indexed, waterproof & tear-resistant road map with topographic & tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale & a convenient size sheet, with a generous overlap & Antananarivo included on both sides. Coverage

Includes:: the Comoros Islands & Mayotte. Topography is indicated by altitude colouring with spot heights & mountain passes, names of mountain ranges & plateaux, seasonal rivers & lakes, mangroves & coral reefs. Road information

Includes:: seasonal tracks & indicates intermediate driving distances on main & secondary roads & locations of petrol stations. Railways, local airfields & coastal ferry connections are also shown, as well as internal administrative boundaries. National parks & protected areas are marked & symbols highlight various places of interest: selected accommodation including campsites, UNESCO world heritage sites, rovas (former royal palaces), beaches, surfing & diving locations, viewpoints, wells, medical facilities, etc. The map has a latitude/longitude grid at intervals of 1º & an index of localities with a separate list of national parks & reserves. Map legend

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Combining the author's unparalleled knowledge of the country
- the product of almost 30 visits in as many years
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Madagascar Wildlife in the unique Wildlife Guide series by Bradt; focusing exclusively on the wildlife of selected regions & countries worldwide, exploring birds, mammals, insects, plants, habitats, geology, conservation, hikes & top bird-watching sites. Each title in the series is an ideal introduction to the wildlife of the destination & an ideal visitors’ souvenir. Bradt are one of the country’s leading independent publishers & have an ethos that focuses on responsible travel, in alliance with a philosophy of sustainability; both in the destinations the guides cover but also in encouraging tourists to limit the impact they have on the local environment. An introductory section gives a wildlife overview of the destination, human history, national parks & other protected areas & alien invasion. Further initial chapters cover The Land & habitats, with detailed information on geography & geology, the history of the l&, climate & weather, the coast, forests, lakes & rivers & alpine & sub-alpine climates. Individual animal groups – Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians & Freshwater Fish, Invertebrates & Plants & Fungi – have dedicated chapters, & detailed descriptions of the animals are accompanied by colour photographs, aiding identification. Inset boxes throughout the text also provide detailed examination of a particular species or notable feature about the indigenous wildlife. A Where to Go chapter at the end of each guide provides details of the destination’s national parks & protected areas, activities, wildlife hotspots & practical planning & travel information, including local transport & accommodation. ...

Emma Bovary is beautiful & bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor & stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion & seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending &, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment & the consequences are devastating. Flaubert`s erotically charged & psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: ` Madame Bovary, c`est moi`. ...

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert`s contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist`s meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction. Flaubert`s protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic, flawed wife & mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society, simultaneously the subject of Flaubert`s admiration & the butt of his irony
- Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional creations. Flaubert`s meticulous approach to the craft of fiction, his portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks of modern fiction.
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The Vintage Classics Europeans series
- with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions
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An elegant fable for the modern age, Louise de Vilmorin`s novella Madame de is a poignant tale of honour, deception & fate. This is the story of Madame de -`s earrings. It is a story of jewellery, of love, of denial, of pain, of delight, of society, that has the simplicity of a fairy tale, the elegance of an eighteenth century roman-a-clef & the particular echoing loneliness that is a phenomenon of the twentieth century: the circle of deceit that society allows proves fatal to the honesty of intense passion. This novella became The Earrings of Madame de, a 1952 film directed by Max Ophuls. Translated from the French by Duff Cooper, Louise de Vilmorin`s Madame de is published by Pushkin Press Louise de Vilmorin (1902-1969), born in her family`s chateau at Verrieres-le-Buisson, Essonne, was a French novelist & poet, & the most extraordinary of women. Married to a Hungarian count, her lovers included Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Orson Welles & Andre Malraux. But it was Duff Cooper, British Ambassador to France, during the 1940s, who was the love of her life, & the translator of this novella. John Julius Norwich, his son, describes in his moving afterword the menage a trois that he remembers as a child at the British Embassy in Paris. ...