Ebook {Epub PDF} Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux

In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists/5(). Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape bltadwin.ruling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous.4/5(). In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists.4/5().

Dark Star Safari Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Theroux, Paul (Author) ON Aug, Paperback. Theroux, Paul. Published by Penguin Books Ltd, ISBN ISBN Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town. By Paul Theroux. pp, Houghton Mifflin, Purchase. Before Theroux became a popular author of novels and travelogues, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi and an instructor at Makerere University in Uganda. As his 60th birthday approached in , he set out to traverse Africa north. DARK STAR SAFARI. Overland From Cairo to Cape Town. By Paul Theroux. pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $ TO the writer, said Ralph Waldo Emerson, ''a man is the faculty of reporting.

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town. Dark Star Safari.: Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, - Travel - pages. 41 Reviews. An unforgettable examination of America's black market and its unrelenting grip on society. Eric Schlosser turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far. In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. It is a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival time are an irrelevance and where contentment can be found balancing on top of a truck in the middle of nowhere. Dark Star Safari () is a written account of a trip taken by author Paul Theroux from Cairo to Cape Town via trains, buses, cars, and armed convoy. Theroux had lived in Africa as a young and idealistic early member of the Peace Corps [3] and part of the reason for this trip was to assess the impact on Africa of the many years of aid from Western countries.