Dark Star Safari is one of his bravest and best books.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:06:22 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA130001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donor 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. I got sick, I got stranded, but I was never bored. It is an assortment of motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. ∺frica 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. He finds astonishing, devastating changes wherever he goes. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students, revisits his African friends. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most beautiful - and often life-threatening - landscapes on earth. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. In Dark Star Safari, Therouxs 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 and also, in part, a sentimental journey. 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.

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.

Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux