A portrait of Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island and a place of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity (including a plethora of endemic species), as well as for its tangled and troubled history. von Gimlette, John

"Brilliant." -The Daily Telegraph No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital,...

Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of the earth's oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurer's...

A gripping account of an under-reported island' Spectator, Book of the Year '[A] brilliant new book about an island that has a geography from heaven and a history from hell' Daily Telegraph 'A brilliant work of travel, history and...

Zwischen Orinoco und Amazonas liegt im Nordosten Südamerikas ein fast unbe kannter Flecken Erde. Entlang der sumpfi gen Küste und in ihrem wilden Hinterland sammelt der Autor verwunderliche Geschichten ein, er entdeckt alte Sklavenmärkte...