Name: Dark Star Safari
ISBN: 9780618446872

Paul Theroux

The author recounts his odyssey down the length of Africa, from Cairo to South Africa, describing the bad food, many delays, discomforts, and dangers of his trip, along with the people and places of the real Africa.

Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Dark Star Safari

Adam Swartz

Wonderful firsthand exploration and insight into a part of the world I never knew all that much about.

Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery charting both unexpected places those visited as a young teacher 40 years before. in the Swahili language, the word ls"safarirs" simply means ls"journeyrs", and this to Theroux is the ultimate journey. It is a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival time are an irrelevance and where contentment can be found balancing on top of a truck in the middle of nowhere.

Dark Star Safari Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

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