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Once described as “a thousand miles outside the world,” the Seychelles archipelago consists of 92 islands scattered over a vast area of the Indian Ocean between Africa and India. These balmy waters were once the haunt of pirates, who buried their treasure on the islands. To the 9th-century Arabs, this area was the legendary Sea of Zanj, where Sinbad found birds so huge that they fed their young on elephants. General Charles Gordon, the Victorian military hero, had an even more extravagant flight of fancy: He was convinced that the Garden of Eden had once flourished here. Read more…

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