TREASURED ISLANDS, journeys to African isles

288pp., b/w & colour illus., map, paperback, Umuzi, Cape Town, 2026

ISBN: 9781415211434

Embarking on floatplanes, catamarans, dhows, helicopters, sailing dinghies, a century-old schooner and a Renaissance caravel, writer and explorer Justin Fox explores some of Africa's most far-flung and beguiling islands, including São Tomé, Cape Verde, Ascension, Dassen, Ilha de Moçambique; Réunion, Mafia and Lamu, the plantation isles of Mauritius and Zanzibar, as well as the prisons of Robben and St Helena and the modern incarnations of Eden on Mnemba, Bazaruto and the Seychelles.

Justin Fox is the former editor of Getaway international magazine. He studied at Oxford, after which he was a research fellow at the University of Cape Town, where he now teaches part time. He is the author of a dozen non-fiction books, including Place, South African literary journeys and the Jack Pembroke series of novels. He lives in Cape Town.