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"'Safari' in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. 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 forty 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"--Jacket
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Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- Dark Star Safari
- Subtitle
- Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Paul Theroux
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 024114048X
- ISBN13
- 9780241140482
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Biographies, Travel, Adventure, Contemporary Fiction, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Series, Africa
- Original title
- My secret history
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- "'Safari' in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. 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 forty 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"--Jacket