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Dark star safari

[This book] takes us the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, forgotten train, and rusting steamer. [The author] confronts delay, discomfort, bullets, and bad food while encountering a remarkable mix of places and people. Beginning in Cairo and ending in Cape Town, he goes on the ultimate safari to the true heart of Africa, not the lavish game parks with overfed guests but the small villages of the bush and the filthy chaotic cities that define this forgotten continent. He got his start as a writer in Africa nearly forty years ago when he taught in the Peace Corps in Malawi and at Makerere University in Uganda. Now he returns to find countries in the throes of corruption and poverty. Able to strike up a conversation with anyone, [he] is the perfect guide: keenly observant, wry, entertaining, and wise. We encounter villagers, farmers, bureaucrats, political figures, white settlers, smug tourists, and aid workers, each with a distinctive point of view. And he is willing to try just about anything, from camping in the Sudanese desert to riding over unspeakably bad roads on the back of a flatbed truck. When it breaks down at dusk, [he] rustles up a dinner of freshly killed chicken and more conversation. -Publisher description.

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  • "[This book] takes us the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, forgotten train, and rusting steamer. [The author] confronts delay, discomfort, bullets, and bad food while encountering a remarkable mix of places and people. Beginning in Cairo and ending in Cape Town, he goes on the ultimate safari to the true heart of Africa, not the lavish game parks with overfed guests but the small villages of the bush and the filthy chaotic cities that define this forgotten continent. He got his start as a writer in Africa nearly forty years ago when he taught in the Peace Corps in Malawi and at Makerere University in Uganda. Now he returns to find countries in the throes of corruption and poverty. Able to strike up a conversation with anyone, [he] is the perfect guide: keenly observant, wry, entertaining, and wise. We encounter villagers, farmers, bureaucrats, political figures, white settlers, smug tourists, and aid workers, each with a distinctive point of view. And he is willing to try just about anything, from camping in the Sudanese desert to riding over unspeakably bad roads on the back of a flatbed truck. When it breaks down at dusk, [he] rustles up a dinner of freshly killed chicken and more conversation. -Publisher description."@en
  • "Theroux travels from Cairo to Cape Town and revisits the people and places he first encountered forty years ago."
  • "Forty years ago, Paul Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now, nearing 60, he returns to travel by train, canoe, bus, and cattle truck from one end of Africa to the other. From Cairo to Cape Town, what he finds is recorded in the style that has stamped Theroux as a master of the travelogue. His curiosity and intelligent observations help create an unforgettable portrait of the varied land that is Africa today.--"@en
  • "'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. 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 to see first-hand what has happened in Africa over four decades of independence."@en

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  • "Dark star safari"@en
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  • "Dark star safari [overland from Cairo to Cape Town]"
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  • "Dark star safari overland from Cairo to Cape Town"

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