SIGNED 1st Edition - Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux - Hardcover, Dust Jacket

by Paul Theroux

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Dark Star Safari Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux signed by the Author Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Year: 2003, First Edition, Signed by the Author / ISBN: 0618134247 / Description: Hardcover, Dust Jacket, Fine/Fine condition / Condition: no marks, no underlining, no highlighting, like new condition / Pages: 473 pages / Widely acclaimed as one of the world's best travel writers, Paul Theroux takes us on the ultimate journey through the world's most complex and mysterious continent. IN THE TRAVEL-WRITING TRADITION that made Paul Theroux's reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and 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

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
• Year: 2003
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780618134243
• Condition: Fine

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