{"product_id":"dark-star-safari-overland-from-cairo-to-capetown-isbn-9780618446872","title":"Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe legendary travel writer’s thrilling and dangerous account of his journey across Africa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey—an overland trek from Cairo to Cape Town—wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists. What results is an insightful meditation on the history, politics, and beauty of Africa and its people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheroux returns to the continent he knew as a young man, asking a hard question: After forty years of independence, foreign aid, and political turmoil, what has become of Africa?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Unflinching Travelogue:\u003c\/b\u003e Join Theroux as he travels by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, and cattle truck, finding an Africa that is hungrier, poorer, and more corrupt than the one he left decades before.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePost-Colonial Realities:\u003c\/b\u003e Through candid conversations with Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists, Theroux gauges the true state of affairs on a continent shaped by foreign help and political upheaval.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Real Safari:\u003c\/b\u003e Discover the original meaning of safari—a journey, not a game drive. This is a trek through the hinterland, far from the tourist trail, where the real challenges are human, not animal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Master's Voice:\u003c\/b\u003e Witty, irascible, and deeply insightful, Paul Theroux's account is a masterclass in travel writing, offering a powerful meditation on the history, politics, and enduring beauty of Africa and its people.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eEngagingly written, sharply observed; another winner from Theroux.\u003cbr\u003eKirkus Reviews, Starred\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis encounters with the natives, aid workers and occasional tourists make for rollicking entertainment, even as they offer a sobering look at the social and political chaos in which much of Africa finds itself.\u003cbr\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo mere tale of travel mishaps....Safari is Swahili for journey, and Theroux's is truly fantastic. Library Journal Starred\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew recent books provide such a litany of Africa's ills, even as they make one fall in love with the continent.\u003cbr\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheroux, one suspects, could be a headache to travel with; resourceful, courageous and indefatigable, as well as crusty, opinionated and contradictory. But listening to him recount his adventures... is another matter. He can make you forget to eat, this man.\u003cbr\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading Theroux may make you cancel your plane tickets and settle in at home instead for a great read. The sometime novelist is at his most masterful with DARK STAR SAFARI. (A) Entertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArmchair travelers will wish the book went on twice as long -- and that is something, considering that the book runs more than 400 pages. This is a masterwork by a master writer.\u003cbr\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Theroux. Travel. Africa. You need a better reason to read?\u003cbr\u003eThe San Diego Union-Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe next best thing to going to Africa is to read (compulsively) this account by Paul Theroux of his overland expedition from Cairo to Capetown.\u003cbr\u003eBoston Herald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Theroux] is at his writerly best when conveying the beauty and wonder of Africa.\u003cbr\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gritty lesson in history, politics, aid relief and tourism; a middle-aged man's meditation on life and travel; and, above all, a masterpiece of observations that makes sense of senseless chaos and staggering wonder. Readers will be glad Therous made the trip.\u003cbr\u003eTown and Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDARK STAR SAFARI reveals the mystery of Africa, a continent of incredible disparity and resilience.\u003cbr\u003ePlayboy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new travelogue ... is perhaps his most captivating work of perigrination since The Great Railway Bazaar.\u003cbr\u003eThe Chicago Sun-Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheroux is the thinking man's travel writer; in a seemingly casual, wandering fashion, he delivers a complete portrait of a continent's people, politics and economy. Bookpage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of \"Dark Star Safari\" is pure entertainment; travelogue in a grand, epic style. But Theroux also offers a sobering, contemporary look at the social and political morass in which much of Africa is mired.\u003cbr\u003eSacramento Bee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you have even the slightest interest in Africa, travel, good writing, the modern world, the future, cities, nature, human society, love, courage--well, life in general--you are going to have to be called to the dinner table six times before you put this book down. The Chicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI know and have traveled in Africa, so I can proclaim with admiration that Theroux, the disheveled, often grumpy, sometimes euphoric sojourner who shares his latest adventures in Dark Star Safari, is an intrepid traveler worthy of the reputation that precedes him. The Houston Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eopinionated but informed, and highly readable.\u003cbr\u003eStar Ledger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA marvel of observation.... Theroux is near faultless in his expression of material about Africa, a continent where he taught 40 years ago, and which he clearly loves.\u003cbr\u003eBuffalo News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou won't find this trip advertised in travel brochures, but it's well worth taking vicariously.\u003cbr\u003eAtlanta Journal Constitution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeither a sensationalistic reveler in the pain of others, nor a hopeless romantic, Theroux chronicles a journey through an Africa full of decay and beauty, fear and joy, misery and perseverance. Denver Rocky Mountain News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDark Star Safari is by turns hilarious and harrowing. It is an exploration of change, both in Africa -- its ruined cities, its confouding beauty -- and in Theroux's own life.\u003cbr\u003eAustin Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHave no fear, Paul Theroux is as grumpy as ever. In this maddening, exhilarating, frustrating and thoroughly entertaining journey through Africa, Theroux is at his bracing best...\u003cbr\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the most passionate and exciting of Theroux's half-dozen major travel books.\u003cbr\u003eThe Associated Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ean exciting adventure tale, filled with fabulously wonderful characters.\u003cbr\u003eSanta Cruz Sentinal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Theroux's] witty observations and obvious love and curiosity for Africa should help make this entertaining epic a yardstick for future travel writing.\u003cbr\u003eThe Daily Yomiuri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Theroux's] storytelling and eye for detail are unmatched.\u003cbr\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStill the dean of this genre, the irascible Theroux is the ideal companion for armchair travel.\u003cbr\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890207092965,"sku":"NP9780618446872","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780618446872.jpg?v=1730232759","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dark-star-safari-overland-from-cairo-to-capetown-isbn-9780618446872","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}