Dark Star Safari : Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
By Paul TherouxIn the travel-writing tradition that made Paul TherouxÂ?s 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. Going by train, dugout canoe, chicken bus,Â? and cattle truck, Theroux passes through some of the most beautiful and often life-threatening landscapes on earth.
This is travel as discovery and also, in part, a sentimental journey. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students, revisits his African friends. He finds astonishing, devastating changes wherever he goes. Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it,Â? he writes, hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you canÂ?t tell the politicians from the witch doctors. Not that Africa is one place. It is an assortment of motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. I got sick, I got stranded, but I was never bored. In fact, my trip was a delight and a revelation.Â? 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. Dark Star Safari is one of his bravest and best books.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 472 pages
- English
- 0618134247
- 9780618134243
About Paul Theroux
paul edward theroux is an american travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is the great railway bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made Read More about Paul Theroux
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