Bandits of Madagascar

By: Lawrence Winkler

Narrated by: Lawrence Winkler

Madagascar is a drug. Between its dazzling culture and biosphere - 90 percent of its species found nowhere else - everything is beautiful. But nothing is possible.

The world’s fourth largest island is also its fourth most corrupt nation. The rivers run red.

In 2016, I flew 30 hours over three continents, into a singular adventure across 4,000 kilometers of isolation. The roads eviscerate; the poverty steals your heart. The terrain follows, a spider web stranded in your peripheral vision.

In Bandits of Madagascar are man-eating trees and elephant birds, pirates and slaves, lemurs and chameleons and crocodile caves, cattle rustlers and rosewood thieves, and sapphires and silk and solicitude.

What always lurks, just over your shoulder, is a crooked spine. Thar be bandits.

©2018 Lawrence Winkler (P)2018 Lawrence Winkler

E Skrederstu

Bandits of Madagascar really gave me a good over all view of the country while traveling through with the author.