HOW TO USE THIS ROUGH GUIDE EBOOK
The Rough Guide to Madagascar is one of a new generation of informative andeasy-to-use travel-guide ebooks that guarantees you make the most of yourtrip. An essential tool for pre-trip planning, it also makes a great travelcompanion when youre on the road.
From the fills you in on history, music and books, and includes a handy language section. Shorter contents lists appear at the start of every section in the ebook to make navigation quick and easy. You can jump back to these by tapping the links that sit with an arrow icon.
Detailed area maps can be found in the Guide and in the , accessible from the table of contents. Depending on yourhardware, you can double-tap on the maps to see larger-scale versions, orselect different scales. There are also thumbnails below more detailed maps in these cases, you can opt to zoom left/top or zoom right/bottom orview the full map. The screen-lock function on your device is recommendedwhen viewing enlarged maps. Make sure you have the latest software updates,too.
Throughout the guide, weve flagged up ourfavourite places - a perfectly sited hotel, an atmospheric caf, a specialrestaurant - with the author pick icon . You can selectyour own favourites and create a personalized itinerary by bookmarking thesights, venues and activities that are of interest, giving you the quickestpossible access to everything youll need for your time away.
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Cover: Silky sifaka has a very restricted range in northeastern Madagascar Jeppo75/Dreamstime.com
ISBN: 9780241015445
CREATIVE TEAM Author: Richard Trillo Editor: Edward Aves Managing Editor: Keith Drew Layout: Pradeep Thapliyal Cartography: James MacDonald, Ed Wright Proofreader: Susanne Hillen Cover Design: Michelle Bhatia Publishing Director (Travel): Georgina Dee
DIGITAL PRODUCTION TEAMDigital Producer: Vikki Nousiainen Head of Digital Media, Delhi: Manjari Hooda Sr.Editorial Manager: Lakshmi Rao Producer: Rahul Kumar Assistant Editor: Etika Kapil Sr.Software Engineer: Ravi Yadav Digital Graphic Design Manager: Nain Rawat Graphic Designer: Roshan Singh Operations Assistant: Tauhid Nasir
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The publishers and authors have done their best toensure the accuracy and currency of all the information in The Rough Guide to Madagascar; however, they can accept no responsibility forany loss, injury, or inconvenience sustained by any traveller as a result ofinformation or advice contained in the guide.
About the author
Richard Trillos other Rough Guides include Kenya, West Africa and First-Time Africa. He is Kenya Programme Manager at the safari operator ExpertAfrica.com . richard.trillo@me.com , richardtrillo.com , Twitter @richardtrillo .
Authors acknowledgements
My grateful thanks go first and foremost to my tireless, skilful, patient editor, Ed Aves, who made all the hard work apleasure. Huge thanks to Expert Africas MD Chris McIntyre and general manager Ellie Dunkels who kindly gave me theextra time I needed to travel in Madagascar. For help with contacts and information, many thanks to my colleague TracyLederer at Expert Africa, and to Lucy Chase-Gardener, Cecilia Morgan, Ian Anderson, Oliver Marshall and David Leffman.
For travel help, many thanks to Brenda Skinner at North South Travel, Carol Tumber at AviaReps, Joel Crossland at Africa Reps and Bina Damodar at Kenya Airways.
In Madagascar, dozens of people helped every day and I owe a huge debt to their assistance, but I particularly want tothank Njato Rakotoniaina who travelled with me on the RN2, Namonja (Nirina) Tsisahiranirina in Nosy Be, Vonjy Herilanto(Lanto) Andriantahiana for the long hours on the RN7, Njaka Ramandimbiarison of Asisten Travel, Donna FrancklinRazanadrafara for making Masoala National Park possible and Gabriel Ramandroso for guiding me in AnkarafantsikaNational Park.
Also in Madagascar, special thanks to Danielle Lannie, Sarah Bartlett, Tim Tetzlaff, Peter Hanratty, Maya Moore, KarenFreeman, Alex Zaves in Majunga, Jim Hansen in Fort Dauphin, Lisa Bass of Azafady, Patricia Bajart and Bruno Decorte ofBakuba Concept, John Bizeray of the Palmier/Zbu Philosophe in Tular and the awesomely positive and well-informedBrett Massoud.
People who shared their specialist knowledge included Wilfried Bauer and Gregory Walsh for geological insights,Hanitrarivo Rasoanaivo for musical wisdom and generous assistance in Tana, the amazing Christina Lejman and BrianChristie of the Arnaud Guesry Foundation orphanage in Diego Suarez, Alastair Newton and Clare Sullivan for travel tipsand help on birds and birding, Tim Wilson for sharing his paper on Jean-Luc Raharimanana, Gary Lemmer of RemoteRivers, and botanists Quentin Luke, Peter B Phillipson and George Schatz
And of course to my wonderful family, Teresa, Alex, David and Phoebe, who once again put up with long absences andmonths of semi-detachment while I worked on this Mad project, all my love and gratitude.
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