Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Paul Theroux
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Summary
"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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Title - Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Edition -
Author - Paul Theroux
ISBN 13 - 9780241140482
Imprint - Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Publisher - Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published - 31/10/2002
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Binding Type - Hardback
Dimensions - 162 x 241 x 47mm
Weight - 889 g
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