9+ [Must Read] Popular Books On Comoros

Quatorze personnes ont péri et sept étaient toujours portées disparues vendredi soir, 24 heures après le naufrage, au large de Mayotte, d'une barque chargée de clandestins en provenance des Comores venus chercher fortune sur l'île française de l'Océan indien. Selon les témoignages des rescapés, le ''kwassa'', une barque de pêche traditionnelle, transportait 33 personnes, d Quatorze personnes ont péri et sept étaient toujours portées disparues vendredi soir, 24 heures après le naufrage, au large de Mayotte, d'une barque chargée de clandestins en provenance des Comores venus chercher fortune sur l'île française de l'Océan indien. Selon les témoignages des rescapés, le ''kwassa'', une barque de pêche traditionnelle, transportait 33 personnes, dont 7 enfants. Il a sans doute heurté un platier, c'est-à-dire un haut-fond de corail découvrant à marée basse. C'est u ... [Read More]

The cosmopolites are literally "citizens of the world," from the Greek word kosmos, meaning "world," and polites, or "citizen." Garry Davis, aka World Citizen No. 1, and creator of the World Passport, was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced his American citizenship in 1948 as a form of protest against nationalism, sovereign borders, and war. The cosmopolites are literally "citizens of the world," from the Greek word kosmos, meaning "world," and polites, or "citizen." Garry Davis, aka World Citizen No. 1, and creator of the World Passport, was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced his American citizenship in 1948 as a form of protest against nationalism, sovereign borders, and war. Today there are cosmopolites of all stripes, rich or poor, intentional or unwitting, from 1-percenters who own five passports thanks to tax-haven ... [Read More]

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From one of the most celebrated travel writers at work today—a vibrantly observant, witty, utterly captivating account of a lifetime’s worth of travel between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Part memoir, part travelogue, all passionate appreciation, Tales from the Torrid Zone begins in Iririki, Alexander Frater’s birthplace. On this tiny island in the South Seas republ From one of the most celebrated travel writers at work today—a vibrantly observant, witty, utterly captivating account of a lifetime’s worth of travel between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Part memoir, part travelogue, all passionate appreciation, Tales from the Torrid Zone begins in Iririki, Alexander Frater’s birthplace. On this tiny island in the South Seas republic of Vanuatu, his grandfather, a Presbyterian missionary from Scotland, converted the inhabitants, his father ran the hospita ... [Read More]

" Les contes sont des mensonges " nous disent nos conteurs. Ces histoires, créées par nos parents et les parents de nos parents, renvoient pourtant aussi à la vie quotidienne des gens et livrent parfois un curieux message de critique sociale, là où l'on attendait que morale bien pensante et conservatisme. ... [Read More]

L'île de Ngazidja (Grande Comore) est l'île la plus occidentale de l'Archipel des Comores. Auréolée d'une origine shirazi, la reliant à quelque Perse fabuleuse, une princesse, portée par les eaux de l'océan Indien, aurait débarqué dans cette île, il y a environ sept siècles. Cet ouvrage a pour but de faire revivre de l'intérieur, à partir des traditions qui ont survécu jusq L'île de Ngazidja (Grande Comore) est l'île la plus occidentale de l'Archipel des Comores. Auréolée d'une origine shirazi, la reliant à quelque Perse fabuleuse, une princesse, portée par les eaux de l'océan Indien, aurait débarqué dans cette île, il y a environ sept siècles. Cet ouvrage a pour but de faire revivre de l'intérieur, à partir des traditions qui ont survécu jusqu'à nos jours dans l'île, l'histoire, le rôle et le fonctionnement du lignage de type matrilinéaire (Inya) ... [Read More]

In 1971, Terry Tarnoff packed a bag, a guitar and sixteen harmonicas and headed out on an eight year journey that would take him into the jungles of Africa, the mountains of India and beyond. This account of his revelatory journey is a tumultuous love story, a spiritual odyssey, and a rollicking escapade all rolled up into one. Tarnoff is a fevered, risk-taking writer with In 1971, Terry Tarnoff packed a bag, a guitar and sixteen harmonicas and headed out on an eight year journey that would take him into the jungles of Africa, the mountains of India and beyond. This account of his revelatory journey is a tumultuous love story, a spiritual odyssey, and a rollicking escapade all rolled up into one. Tarnoff is a fevered, risk-taking writer with an uncanny ability to render place. The Bone Man of Benares is a lunatic bird of a book, flapping, singing, soaring, often all at the same time. ... [Read More]

Just before Christmas in 1938, the young woman curator of a small South African museum spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes and remarkable limb-like fins, unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve her unusual find, she searched for days for a way to save it, but ended up Just before Christmas in 1938, the young woman curator of a small South African museum spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes and remarkable limb-like fins, unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve her unusual find, she searched for days for a way to save it, but ended up with only the skin and a few bones. A charismatic amateur ichthyologist, J.L.B. Smith, saw a thumbnail sketch of the fish and was thunderstruc ... [Read More]

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