Download or read book Blue Moon Over Madagascar written by Cathy A. Corn and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GLAM

Download or read book Once in a Blue Moon Lodge written by Lorna Landvik and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her getaway turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined. But Nora is the do-or-die-trying daughter of Patty Jane, who now must embrace the House of Curl’s slogan: “Expect the Unexpected.” With her trademark wit and warmth, Lorna Landvik follows Nora and an ever-growing cast of characters between city and wooded retreat, Minnesota and Norway, a past that’s secret and a future that’s promising, but uncertain. Responding to a mysterious letter with a Norwegian postmark, Nora’s grandmother Ione travels to her native land to tend to a dying cousin and her husband—two people who played a painful, pivotal role in her past. Nora accompanies her and is surprised by her grandmother’s long-ago love story—but even more surprised by the beginning of her own. A book about making new beginnings out of old endings, Once in a Blue Moon Lodge invites readers to check in, set down their baggage, and spend time with the kind of people who understand that while they can’t control all that life throws at them, they can at least control how they catch it. And as anyone who has stopped in at Patty Jane’s House of Curl will tell you: you’re in for a rollicking good time with characters whose strengths, foibles, and choices will have you laughing and crying. Hankerings for coffee and gingerbread cookies may also be experienced.

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Download or read book Antipode written by Heather E. Heying and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heying, a bioligist specailizing in reptiles and amphibians, writes about her three seasons spent in Madagascar.

Download or read book For the Love of Lemurs written by Patricia Chapple Wright and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986, primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright was given a seemingly impossible task: to travel to the rainforests of Madagascar and find the greater bamboo lemur, a species that hadn't been seen in the wild for thirty years. Not only did Wright discover that the primate still existed but that it lived alongside a completely new species. What followed was a love affair with an animal and a country that continues to this day. In this frank and enchanting sequel to High Moon Over the Amazon, Wright recounts the many challenges she faced, including separation from her daughter, a tempestuous romance with a fellow scientist, and political upheaval that threatens her dream of establishing a national park to ensure the safety of her precious lemurs. But in the end, her tenacity, daring, and passion for this endangered primate lead to extraordinary scientific breakthroughs and help bring the animal back from the brink of extinction.

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Download or read book Made in Madagascar written by Andrew Walsh and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar has developed a reputation among globe-trotting gemstone traders and tourists as a source of some of the world's most precious natural wonders. Although some might see Ankarana's sapphire and ecotourist trades as being at odds with each other, many local people understand these trades to be fundamentally connected, most obviously in how both serve foreign demand for what Madagascar has to offer the world. Walsh explores the tensions and speculations that have come with the parallel emergence of these two trades with sensitivity and a critical eye, allowing for insights into globalization, inequality, and the appeal of the "natural." For more information, and to read a hyperlinked version of the first chapter online, visit https://madeinmadagascar.wordpress.com.

Download or read book Madagascar written by Hilary Bradt and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With plenty of background on the belief and customs of the Malagasy people, this guide to Madagascar addresses the challenges and rewards of travel on this unique island, with coverage of the extraordinary natural history and information on accommodation, transport and the country's improving infrastructure.

Download or read book The Eye of the Storm written by Jan Larson and published by Jan Larson. This book was released on 2015-04-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madagascar, 2009. As the Global Financial Crisis sinks its teeth into the world economy, no corporation is left untouched. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Wyman Booth Laboratories is teetering on the brink of foreclosure, however there is potential for it to be saved with a highly lucrative research opportunity emerging in the vaporous rainforests of Ranomafana National Park. Meanwhile Danish nurse, Vicki Salling, is dedicated to preserving the unique but fragile biodiversity of the region. Newly assigned as manager of an environmental NGO, she has grown fond of the charming Malagasy people, who are as enigmatic as the natural surroundings they inhabit. However, reforestation is a Sisyphean task that is made all the more difficult by resistance from local farmers and the vested interests of the reckless local gemstone trade. When Vicki meets Luc Legrand, a debonair researcher at Wyman Booth with a murky history, an international saga unfolds in which everyone is implicated. From the executive boardrooms of Big Pharma, to isolated outposts within the dense Madagascan jungle, truths emerge that put innocent lives at risk. But all amounts to nil when faced with the insurmountable force of the jungle, the only true decider of fate. It is the saviour and the barbarian, the refuge and the ultimate destruction, the void into which histories vanish and out of which legends are born. Can Vicki and Luc find safety in obscurity from the global treachery that threatens them, or will all be lost as a tropical storm gathers on the horizon?

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