num_pages: 273
description: Drysdale was just about to leave for Madagascar when family papers in a crumbling house in Devon revealed that her ancestors had traded there during the 19th century. Madagascar was not their only haunt: there was also Zanzibar and the Comoro Islands. Drysdale and her photographer husband Richard Pomeroy set off to follow in their wake and seek out any lingering family connections.
language: English
title: Dancing with the Dead: A Journey to Zanzibar and Madagascar
publisher: Hamish Hamilton