|a 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. |a Boston : |b Houghton Mifflin, |c 2004. |a Dark star safari : |b overland from Cairo to Cape Town / |c Paul Theroux. Dark Star Safari is one of his bravest and best books.|a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d BAKER |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d VUE |d HEBIS In fact, my trip was a delight and a revelation.' Seeing firsthand what is happening across Africa, Theroux is as obsessively curious and wittily observant as always, and his readers will find themselves on an epic and enlightening journey. Walk Through Lightly is daring, even verging on harrowing.

Fortunately, said influences take up such a unique space in the music world that anything resembling them is welcomed with open arms. The legendary travel writers thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa in a rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy. I got sick, I got stranded, but I was never bored. At some points, Dark Star Safari are dead ringers for their biggest influences. It is an assortment of motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. It is Theroux in his element - a trip where chance encounter is everything, where. 'Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it,' he writes, 'hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you cant tell the politicians from the witch doctors. Safari in Swahili simply means journey, and this is the ultimate safari. He finds astonishing, devastating changes wherever he goes. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students, revisits his African friends.

Almost forty years ago, Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. This is travel as discovery and also, in part, a sentimental journey. Going by train, dugout canoe, 'chicken bus,' and cattle truck, Theroux passes through some of the most beautiful and often life-threatening landscapes on earth. In the travel-writing tradition that made Paul Therouxs reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa.

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