The Natural History of Madagascar edited by Steven M. Goodman and Jonathan P. Benstead, University of Chicago Press, £59.50/$85, ISBN 0226303063 Reviewed by Adrian Barnett
IT’S isolated, geologically diverse, biologically amazing and very, very threatened. Just about everything on Madagascar seems to occur nowhere else, except, that is, for Homo sapiens. That recent arrival seems as intent on wreaking havoc here, as it has everywhere else in its wide range.
Sprinkled with colour photographs, The Natural History of Madagascar is an extraordinary compendium, complete and complex. Steven Goodman and Jonathan Benstead cover geological and human histories, as well as all…
