“The Scattered Islands” by Olivier Rolin: wizard blue to starboard

At Pointe de Galets, northwest of Réunion, Olivier Rolin boards the Champlain . This escape is a kind of deal with the French Navy (he learns that it is also the word for the stairs on board). He and we do not lose out. Approaching the Scattered Islands, these French confetti in the Indian Ocean around Madagascar (which has claimed them since its independence in 1960), promises a unique journey. The expedition aims to resupply the tiny garrisons that France maintains on these possessions in the middle of the Mozambique Channel ( "about fifteen soldiers on those that are habitable, so that they are not stolen from us by surprise" ). His story avoids politics, and remains familiar to those who have already read it: parentheses (or dig