MONEY FOR MADAGASCAR

I am super excited to present a special project I have been collaborating on with my brother. My brother is a world traveler, author, and photographer and he has partnered up with Money for Madagascar to donate 100% of the proceeds from selling his new iBook. The iBook is AWESOME (well, that's my slightly biased opinion, as I served as the font advisor, cover designer and map illustrator) but I really do think he did an incredible job presenting such a fascinating country. Be sure to download the book here and read more about it on his website. It's only $4.99, half the price of a green juice in San Francisco!

According to the author: It is said that the world has never been so well known or so easily within reach, but merely saying ‘Madagascar’, pronouncing its syllables, always makes it sound so far away and unreachable, like some lost world in a dream — an ethereal land given substance only by the stories we are told of it. The nature, the culture, the richness of the land: they are all part of the magical mosaic that is Madagascar. Like most of Africa, it is poor, yet even in its hunger it is hopeful, rather than desperate. Punished by cyclones, failed by its leaders, it remains optimistic. I write about the rainforests and deserts and markets and fêtes, the sapphire trade and conservation, but it’s the Malagasy people who set the Big Red Island apart. Though they own little, their hospitality is unparalleled. Their ways remain timeless. They speak their truth quietly. Plainly. And they have hope. All those kinds of things are hard to describe, maybe impossible: the contrasts, the contradictions, incongruities, juxtaposition — unless you’ve actually been there. Unless you’ve gone upcountry. 

This book brings you there. Combining hundreds of color photographs with an immersive multimedia experience, it provides rich visual context to these travel stories. So go ahead! Take a journey with me to the edge of the world. Discover a new kind of travel literature, where the stories are just the beginning and every picture is worth a thousand words. Discover Madagascar. And help save it.

Buy this book and help to support development projects in Madagascar. Kris Pierscieniak, author of ‘Madagascar: The Land Amidst Moving Waters’ will kindly donate to the charity Money for Madagascar (MfM). all proceeds from the worldwide sale of this iBook for the first 90-days that it is on sale. Madagascar is one of the world’s poorest countries. MfM sends money to small-scale Malagasy-led initiatives which tackle the country’s serious educational, social, economic and environmental challenges. To purchase, click here.