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_aDark star safari : _boverland from Cairo to Cape Town / _cPaul Theroux. |
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_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin, _c2003. |
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_g1. _tLighting out -- _g2. The _tmother of the world -- _g3. _tUp and down the Nile -- _g4. The _tdervishes of Omdurman -- _g5. The _tOsama Road to Nubia -- _g6. The _tDjibouti line to Harar -- _g7. The _tlongest road in Africa -- _g8. _tFigawi safari on the Bandit Road -- _g9. _tRift Valley days -- _g10. _tOld friends in Bat Valley -- _g11. The _tMV Umoja across Lake Victoria -- _g12. The _tbush train to Dar es Salaam -- _g13. The _tKilimanjaro express to Mbeya -- _g14. _tThrough the outposts of the plateau -- _g15. The _tback road to Soche Hill School -- _g16. _tRiver safari to the coast -- _g17. _tInvading Drummond's farm -- _g18. The _tbush border bus to South Africa -- _g19. The _thominids of Johannesburg -- _g20. The _twild things at Mala Mala -- _g21. _tFaith, hope, and charity on the Limpopo Line -- _g22. The _tTrans-Karoo Express to Cape Town -- _g23. _tBlue train blues. |
520 | 1 | _a"Dark Star Safari is an 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. 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." "This is travel as discovery and also, in part, a sentimental journey. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students, revisits his African friends. He finds astonishing, devastating changes wherever he goes. "Africa 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. Not that Africa is one place. It is an assortment of motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. I got sick, I got stranded, but I was never bored. In fact, my trip was a delight and a revelation.""--BOOK JACKET. | |
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