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Books : Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown

by: Paul Theroux

: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 916.04329
EAN: 9780618446872
ISBN: 0618446877
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: April 05, 2004
Publisher: Mariner Books
Studio: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 27588

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In the travel-writing tradition that made Paul Theroux"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," 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," he writes, "hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can"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."
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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- Dark tar Safari
Interesting overview of countries we normally do not hear much about. Hearing about tribal customs and attitudes in the lesser known African countries brought the book to life. He is an accomplished traveler and commentator.

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- His own personal view and experience
This book is an interesting account of Paul Theroux's own personal history in Africa and his travel adventure. Others may take the same trip and have an entirely different set of opinions based on outlook and personal opinions. Keeping that in mind it is entertaining and thought provoking.

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- Snapshot of a Dying Continent
In his odyssey from Cairo to Cape Town, Theroux ventures through the best and the worst that this fabled continent has to offer. And if there's one overriding message that comes through it is that Africa is doomed. It is fading back into the bush and you get the feeling that perhaps that is the only answer to it. Make the continent a nature preserve and forget about it. Theroux is unstinting in his descriptions of the good and bad things he encounters in Africa and his fearlessness in getting ... Read More

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- "Globetrotter Avoids Bus Plunge Horror"
I've been reading Paul Theroux for over 20 years and have always enjoyed both his fiction and his travel books and still like seeing how they intersect sometimes (he gives updates on writing THE STRANGER AT THE PALAZO D'ORO during this trip).

DARK STAR SAFARI is a fascinating and challenging addition to his travels.

The book has confirmed a fear and suspicion I've had about Africa: what good is all this charity really doing? I've supported an African charity until recently ... Read More

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- A Book to Read and Reread

I read this a chapter or two chapter at a time over a period of 2 months. It is a book to savor. There are not many books I read again, but this one is on my list.

This is a difficult journey and Theroux, traveling alone, might not have emerged from it alive. His advantages were years of travel and previous aquaintance with the continent.

The most interesting vignettes were his visit with Mahfouz in Egypt, the boat trip across Lake Victoria, entering any country, visiting ... Read More

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 916.04329
EAN: 9780618446872
ISBN: 0618446877
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: April 05, 2004
Publisher: Mariner Books
Studio: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 27588
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