Search Results for ‘Indian Ocean’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 6 matches found

The Customs of the Kingdoms of India

The "Customs of the Kingdoms of India" offers selected writings from the most famous of early travellers, Marco Polo. As Polo returned home across the Indian Ocean, after years in the service of Kublai...

The Teatime Islands

This is the author's first book in which he recounts the pursuit of his childhood dream of travelling to the far-flung outposts of Britain where red post boxes and Union Jacks still remain. In his...

Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons

Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean that was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, still had among its fauna many unique but endangered species, among them Mauritius kestrels...

The Aye-aye and I - A Rescue Mission in Madagascar

Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa, is one of the most fascinating islands in the world. The fourth largest island, it is home to five per cent of the world’s plant...

A Year in Grean Tea and Tuk-Tuks: My unlikely adventure in creating an organic farm in Sri Lanka

We’ll all, from time to time, wish we could get out of the rat race and have a go at living Tom and Barbara’s Good Life - self-sustained and environmentally-friendly. For most of us, that’s as far as...

Running in the Family

In ‘Running in the Family’ Michael Ondaatje returns to Sri Lanka, the home he left for Canada twenty five years earlier. A dream lures Ondaatje to revisit his childhood and the exotic family he never...