Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Author(s): Paul Theroux

Travel - Narratives

In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of the unknown and the unexpected - charting places unknown and those known as a young teacher 40 years before. In the Swahili language, the word "safari" simply means "journey", and this - to Theroux - is the ultimate journey. 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.


Product Information

Shortlisted for Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 2003.

Paul Theroux is the author of many bestselling books, both fiction and non-fiction. His travel books include THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, THE PILLARS OF HERCULES and FRESH-AIR FIEND. His latest book, THE STRANGER AT THE PALAZZO D'ORO, is published byHamish Hamilton in June 2003. He divides his time between Cape Cod and Hawaii.

General Fields

  • : 9780140281118
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.357
  • : May 2003
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 32mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Paul Theroux
  • : Paperback
  • : 0307
  • : English
  • : 916.0433
  • : very good
  • : 512