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SUMMARY:Author Reading- Lawrence Winkler- Bandits of Madagascar
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/author-reading-lawrence-winkler-bandits-of-madagascar/
LOCATION:Vancouver Island Regional Library - North Nanaimo Branch :: 6250 Hammond Bay Rd Nanaimo, 
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p>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.</p>=0D=0A=
<p>Madagascar is a drug. Between its dazzling culture and biosphere&mdash;ninety percent of its species found nowhere else&mdash;everything is beautiful. But nothing is possible.</p>=0D=0A=
<p>The world&rsquo;s fourth largest island is also its fourth most corrupt nation. The rivers run red.</p>=0D=0A=
<p>In 2016, he flew thirty hours over three continents, into a singular adventure across 4000 kilometers of isolation. The roads eviscerate; the poverty steals your heart. The terrain follows, a spider web stranded in your peripheral vision.</p>=0D=0A=
<p>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.</p>=0D=0A=
<p>What always lurks, just over your shoulder, is a crooked spine. Thar be bandits.</p>
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