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Dark Star Safari (2002) is a written account of a trip taken by American author Paul Theroux from Cairo, Egypt, to Cape Town, South Africa, 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 ...
- Paul Theroux
- 2002
Jan 1, 2002 · Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town. Paul Theroux. 3.99. 14,946 ratings1,012 reviews. 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.
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Apr 5, 2004 · Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown. Paperback – April 5, 2004. A rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances.
- Paul Theroux
- $12.99
- Mariner Books
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town. Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 - History - 485 pages. "This is travel as discovery and also, in part, a sentimental journey....
Feb 1, 2004 · In Dark Star Safari, 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.
- Paul Theroux
Apr 5, 2004 · The legendary travel writer's thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa. A rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances.
Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town. Travelling 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.
- Paul Theroux
