Birds of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands, Paperback - Roger Safford

The Malagasy region contains one of the most extraordinary concentrations of biodiversity in the world. Its recognition as a zoogeographic region i...

Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred 'Madagascar Youths', young people who British authorities accepted for training abroad fol...

DescriptionSHORTLISTED FOR THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD 2019'The Island Kitchen has lifted my spirits and made me hungry and happy in equal measure...

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for...

Reducere. On December 26, 2004, an enormous earthquake ripped through the Indian Ocean. This triggered a series of massive tsunami waves, some as high as 100...

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeb...

DescriptionThis beautifully illustrated photographic field guide is the first to focus on the identification of the fascinating, diverse and unique...

Detailed history of the operations of the Royal Navy's Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean during the Second World War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books L...

An extraordinary monograph by one of the most revered and original image-makers at work today, now expanded and updated to include previously unpub...

Reducere. Sharks, whales, huge waves, and months and months at sea - these are just a few of the things that James Adair and his friend Ben had to battle aga...

The artist Humphrey Ocean RA has been drawing birds for decades - both at home and on his travels

This new field guide covers all the bird species found in India, Pakistian, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives.

Featuring concise, identification-focused text positioned opposite the colour plates to allow quick and easy reference, this guide also includes de...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It is cert...

Publisher: Ocean Explorer MapsAuthor(s): Nigel SitwellIllustration(s): colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour maps, scale: 1 : 365 000; dimension...

Lost overboard at night in a storm - no one saw him fall, and no one could hear him shout

Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power an...

Publisher: Lexington BooksNumber of pages: 370Collection: Comparative Urban StudiesPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 238 x 159 x 33Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is often referred to as the 'Constitution for the Oceans'. It addresses multiple ...

Reducere. With a rich avifauna of more than 300 species, the three islands that make up the Cayman Islands - Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac - fo...

International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they interact. This book examines how Port...

A complete reference book of sharks, rays and fishes for researchers, divers and snorkellers. Contains 1124 colour photographs of almost every fish...

Across the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, ants are one of the most conspicuous and ecologically dominant animal groups. From driver ants to wea...

DescriptionHow is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and...

Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 5 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Eastern Africa, from the Great La...

Reducere. DescriptionIn October 1917, an invasion force of some 25, 000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a h...

Reducere. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mys...

Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdiscip...

With an introduction by Marlon James, So Many Islands brings together stories from the distant shores of the island communities in the Caribbean, M...

Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and nation-states around the...