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Mauritius Books
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The Last Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,909 ratings — published 2007
Eve out of Her Ruins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,699 ratings — published 2006
Silent Winds, Dry Seas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.30 — 421 ratings — published 2021
Riambel (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.93 — 505 ratings — published 2022
Silence of the Chagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.94 — 173 ratings — published 2005
The Prospector (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,375 ratings — published 1985
An Impossible Return (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,051 ratings — published 2020
Zielone sari (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.01 — 580 ratings — published 2009
The Rape of Sita (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.74 — 105 ratings — published 1995
Blue Bay Palace (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.55 — 123 ratings — published
Tropique de la violence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,811 ratings — published 2016
Kaya Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mauritius)
avg rating 2.91 — 85 ratings — published 2000
The Interrogation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.26 — 1,129 ratings — published 1963
Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,073 ratings — published 1977
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,797,629 ratings — published 2012
Prisoner of Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.19 — 138 ratings — published 2012
River of Smoke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,119 ratings — published 2011
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,383 ratings — published 1977
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,815 ratings — published 2022
Le ciel par-dessus le toit (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.47 — 832 ratings — published 2019
When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.69 — 212 ratings — published 2011
The Living Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.36 — 129 ratings — published 2013
Mauritius East beautiful beaches: A Bailiu Cuimhneachain grianghraif dhaite (Photo Albaim Book 10) (Irish Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritius)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2011
El africano (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,142 ratings — published 2004
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.98 — 29,778 ratings — published 2008
Georges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.80 — 767 ratings — published 1843
Journey to Mauritius (Lost & Found Classic Travel Writing)
by (shelved 4 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.19 — 16 ratings — published 1983
Smutny ambasador (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.77 — 133 ratings — published 2015
So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.78 — 125 ratings — published 2018
Waiting for Tomorrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.49 — 290 ratings — published 2015
Mauritius West: : Lembranca Colecao de Fotografias Coloridas com legendas (Photo Albuns) (Portuguese Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2011
الفضيلة (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,296 ratings — published 1787
The Aye-Aye and I (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,342 ratings — published 1992
Benares & In Babylon (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published
Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.64 — 25 ratings — published 2005
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,080 ratings — published 1990
Bradt Mauritius: Rodrigues - Reunion (Bradt Travel Guides)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2002
Onitsha (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.65 — 715 ratings — published 1991
Under the Flamboyant Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
ZOM-FAM (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.69 — 140 ratings — published 2020
Mauritius South rugged scenery stunning beaches: A Souvenir Collection of colour photographs with captions (Photo Albums Book 9)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
Diego Garcia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.87 — 331 ratings — published 2022
Sens-Plastique (Green Integer)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.26 — 65 ratings — published 1948
Pieternella van die Kaap (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 4.09 — 487 ratings — published 2000
Mauritius North Port Louis, Pamplemousses and Riviere du Rempart (Photo Albums. Book 11)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 2.33 — 3 ratings — published 2011
Genie and Paul (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.35 — 114 ratings — published 2012
La noce d'Anna (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.71 — 175 ratings — published 2005
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mauritius)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,748 ratings — published 1897
“There is a smell, rich and sickly sweet, so pungent I feel as if I am being choked. A smell that is both new and curiously familiar. Notes of the most intense jasmine with a back note of vanilla and overripe mango.
The sea is too warm, and I cut short my night swim. As I pass through the garden, lanterns now glowing, the perfume has faded a little, it is less hypnotic, softer and more floral than before. Trumpets of deep-crimson hibiscus have closed for the night, chains of bougainvillea and a plant I do not know are the only ones in flower. It is this last from which the scent is emanating. Each blossom has thick white petals, crisp, like icing on a wedding cake. Almost too perfect to be real, the petals darken in the centre to a pale-yellow with a deep-saffron eye. Strangely, the scent is stronger from a distance than close up.
My mystery flower is frangipani, or if we are talking in botanical terminology, Plumeria, the name given to honor the seventeenth-century French monk and botanist Charles Plumier. I note that the almond filling known as frangipane was once perfumed with the extract, though we are a long, long way from Bakewell.
There are few perfumes I would call hypnotic-- tuberose, Casablanca lily, jasmine perhaps-- but frangipani is up there with them. I go back to my room, head throbbing, drunk on flowers.”
― A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
The sea is too warm, and I cut short my night swim. As I pass through the garden, lanterns now glowing, the perfume has faded a little, it is less hypnotic, softer and more floral than before. Trumpets of deep-crimson hibiscus have closed for the night, chains of bougainvillea and a plant I do not know are the only ones in flower. It is this last from which the scent is emanating. Each blossom has thick white petals, crisp, like icing on a wedding cake. Almost too perfect to be real, the petals darken in the centre to a pale-yellow with a deep-saffron eye. Strangely, the scent is stronger from a distance than close up.
My mystery flower is frangipani, or if we are talking in botanical terminology, Plumeria, the name given to honor the seventeenth-century French monk and botanist Charles Plumier. I note that the almond filling known as frangipane was once perfumed with the extract, though we are a long, long way from Bakewell.
There are few perfumes I would call hypnotic-- tuberose, Casablanca lily, jasmine perhaps-- but frangipani is up there with them. I go back to my room, head throbbing, drunk on flowers.”
― A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“Realising that Mauritius could be a valuable port of call for Dutch ships Heemskerck put a rooster and some hens ashore and planted orange and lemon seeds, invoking 'the Almighty God's blessing that He may lend His power to make them multiply and grow for the benefit of those who will visit the island after us'.”
― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
