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CAPT. OLIVER has made a useful compilation of information on Madagascar in all its aspects. The compilation consists largely of extracts from previous writers. Capt. Oliver himself visited Madagascar a good many years ago, and has naturally taken much interest in the island and its people ever since. It is evident these two volumes must have cost him much labour, which will no doubt be appreciated by those in search of information on Madagascar in a handy form. After an historical sketch, the first volume is devoted to geography, topography, climatology, geology, and natural history. These, in the second volume, are followed by chapters on natural and agricultural products, ethnology, manufactures, administration, trade and finance, bibliography and cartography, and a very long chapter, with appendixes, on the Franco-Malagasy war. The work, we should say, is exceedingly well supplied with maps and plans, of which there are nineteen altogether.
Madagascar: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island and its Former Dependencies.
Compiled by Samuel Pasfield Oliver, late Captain R.A. Two vols. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1886.)
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Madagascar: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island and its Former Dependencies . Nature 35, 149 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035149a0
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