Is This the Way to Madagascar?
Lydia Laube
PB 200 PP 198 x 129 9781862547551 $22.95
Travel / True Stories Wakefield Press May 2007
In all her travels across the globe, Lydia
Laube had always wanted to visit the intriguing island of Madagascar
and meet its famous residents, the lemurs. So she hops aboard
a French cargo ship, replete with cleaver-wielding cook, to begin
a wayward journey.
After escapades in Singapore, Egypt, Malta
and Italy, Lydia eventually lands on the place Arab sailors called
the Island of the Moon. Here she meets the friendly locals, attempts
to familiarise herself with their tricky language, and sets off
to sample the country’s food, accommodation, sights, and
sounds – and to find her lemurs.
Lydia Laube is one of Australia’s best-loved
travel writers, and author of the bestseller Behind the Veil:
An Australian nurse in Saudi Arabia.
By the same author:
Behind
the Veil
Bound
for Vietnam
Llama
for Lunch
The
Long Way Home
Slow
Boat to Mongolia
Temples
and Tuk Tuks