Like a lesser Galapagos, these islands boast flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth. Moreover, the Socotran people have their own language (which lacks a script) and distinctive culture, cuisine and architecture: neither Arabian nor African, yet strongly and distinctively Socotran. Richard Boggs spent many months in this remote and other-worldly archipelago, mixing with the Socotran peoples and capturing in world class photographs the uniqueness of the land and its life.

The Lost World of Socotra brings this remarkable location to a new audience and is, truly, a journey through lands like no other. It is a beautifully produced photographic book, which will hold strong appeal to all those with an interest in foreign places, world geography and ethnology, natural history, photography and travel.

"Richard Boggs's passion for the island is as intense as Adam Nicolson's for the Shiants or Tim Robinson's for Aran. His writing is by turns poetic, jaunty and poignant. His pictures are both a dream and a reminder of the threats that lie just out of shot."

Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author of the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph prize winning Yemen: Travels in Dictionaryland (1997).

CONTENTS:
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Place Apart
Chapter 2: Frankincense
Chapter 3: People
Chapter 4: Culture
Chapter 5: Development
Chapter 6: Tourism
Bibliography
Index