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100 1 _aTheroux, Paul,
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245 1 0 _aDark star safari :
_boverland from Cairo to Cape Town /
_cPaul Theroux.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bHoughton Mifflin,
_c2003.
300 _a472 pages :
_bmaps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
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505 0 0 _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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