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Travel Guides

Mauritius & Seychelles Insight Guide Edition 2002  (Maps Worldwide)  (amazon.co.uk) - UK
The excellent Insight Guides provide colourful background reading with informative text, good photography and includes a travel planner and maps.

The Dive Sites of Mauritius   (amazon.com) - USA
by Alan Mountain

Culture Shock!: Mauritius  (amazon.com) - USA
by Roseline Lum
You'll never feel intimidated and awkward about the customs and etiquette of another country again. With the insights provided in this Culture Shock! Guide, you'll learn to see beyond the stereotypes and misinformation that often precede a visit to a foreign land.

Guide to Mauritius   (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Royston Ellis

Lonely Planet Mauritius, Reunion & Seychelles  (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Sarina Singh, Deanna Swaney, Robert Strauss

Spectrum Guide to Mauritius   (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Camerapix (Compiler)
Mauritius seems to be the ideal subject for a photographer with good equipment and an unlimited expense account. There are ocean views, mountain views, submarine views, jungles, natives in colorful garb, waterfalls, sunsets, para-sails, helicopter shots. The armchair traveler sits at home and licks his lips.   (From Independent Publisher)

This Is Mauritius  (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Alan Mountain, Alain Proust

Travel Guide Mauritius  (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Martine Maurel

Visitors' Guide to Mauritius and Reunion   (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Marco Turco
How to Get There, What to See, Where to Stay (Visitors' Guides)


Maps & Atlases

Globetrotter Travel Map of Mauritius   (Maps Worldwide)
Published by New Holland Publishers (U Series Globetrotter Travel Maps Sheet map
A map of Mauritius which caters specifically for the needs of tourists and visitors. It includes major city plans.

Mauritius 1:120,000   (Maps Worldwide)
Published by Freytag & Berndt Maps Series International Road Maps Sheet map
High quality road maps with place name index. In many countries these are simply the best maps available. Scales vary according to the size of the country. Index is in several languages.

Mauritius General map   (Maps Worldwide)
Published by Institut Geographique National (IGN) Series Countries and Cities of the World Sheet map
Full colour French text

History & Politics

Country Review, Mauritius 1998/1999   (amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
concise, up-to-date sources for political and economic information

Common Denominators   (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Ethnicity, Nation-Building and Compromise in Mauritius (Global Issues Series)
Mauritius is the focus for this study of social identity and political culture. The book seeks to enhance comparative understanding of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization.

The Population of Mauritius : Fact, Problem, and Policy  (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by S. Chandrasekhar

Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Mauritius, 1810-33   (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
The Conflict Between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform Under British Rule
by Anthony J. Barker


Other Books & Novels

Mauritius from the Air   (amazon.com) - USA
by Genvieve Dormann, Guido Alberto Rossi (Photographer), Genvieve Domann

Boat of Stone   (amazon.com) - USA
by Maureen Earl
Maureen Earl puts a new and fascinating twist on an old story: the Holocaust as experienced by a boatload of Jewish refugees who are refused entry to Palestine. In "Boat Of Stone", they are imprisoned by the British on the tropical island of Mauritius off the eastern coast of Africa.  (Cathy A. Coleman, New York Times)

The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole  (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Dany Adone
This work is based on an investigation of the language acquisition process, particularly with regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. Mauritian Creole, in common with many Creole languages, emerged under extreme conditions and, as an isolated language, Mauritian Creole is typologically different from languages where syntax is predominantly tied to morphology.

The Mauritius Command  (amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Patrick O'Brian
Ashore without a command--and on half-pay to boot--Jack Aubrey's prayers are answered when Stephen Maturin shows up with a secret mission for him. The two men have been ordered to the Cape of Good Hope. There they hope to dislodge the French garrisons on the islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. Alas, two of their own colleagues--a dilettante and a martinet--prove to be nearly as great an obstacle as the French themselves.   (Amazon.com)

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