Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town - Hardcover
From the master of modern travel writing comes a long-awaited new full length travel book on the vast and varied continent of Africa.
With the publication of THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, Theroux introduced us to a new kind of travel writing, refreshingly honest and full of humorous incident and chance encounter. And what better destination than Africa - huge, complex and full of life - for his first major travel book for seven years. Setting off from Cairo to Cape Town, Theroux is as obsessivelycurious and wittily observant as always - and his readers will find themselves on an epic journey which will enlighten as well as entertain.
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"If you appreciate a fine writer in bis finest form, if you are curious about Africa, if you delight in eccentricity, make the trek with Theroux."
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"Safari" in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In "Dark Star Safari", Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most beautiful - and often life-threatening - landscapes on earth. This is travel as discovery, but it is in part a sentimental journey. Almost 40 years ago, Theroux first travelled in Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students and revisits his African friends. Seeing first-hand what has happened in Africa in those four decades of independence, Theroux is obsessively curious and wittily observant.
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 024114048X
- ISBN 13 9780241140482
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
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