Madagascar Travels
Christina Dodwell
Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Sceptre; New Ed edition (May 16, 1996)
ISBN: 0340660023
Overall Rating: 2 Stars 
Readability: 2 Stars
Content: 2 Stars
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At Overland Explorers we attempt to recommend materials that
are of the finest quality and not lambaste sub-standard products.
Madagascar Travels is an exception to that rule. We have included
Madagascar Travels in our list of recommended books out of deference
to the author's previous work, Travels
With Fortune. While Travels With Fortune is amongst the best
travel and adventure tales ever written, Madagascar Travels is
lackluster and mundane, lacking the passion and free spiritedness
of Dodwell's previous work. Perhaps it is unfair to compare the
two books, however, after such an incredible work as Travels With
Fortune, one expects much from Dodwell. There are a few things
of interest in the book, but most of the book will only be intriguing
to someone who has visited the magical Isle of Madagascar. And
even that is a stretch. Dodwell's strength is not in her writing,
but lies in her thirst for adventure, her knack for finding herself
in unique and bizarre situations, without appearing to be searching
for anything specific. In Madagascar Travels, Dodwell searches
for adventure that isn't there and tries to make up for it in
her writing. The result is a disappointing book that leaves the
reader longing for a copy of Travels With Fortune. If you stumble
across Madagascar Travels, read it, but expect to be disappointed.
