Dark Star Safari Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Informationen zum Autor Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar , The Old Patagonian Express , My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast . He won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 2020. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands. Klappentext An account of Paul Theroux's ultimate "safari"! from Cairo to Capetown. 35!000 copies sold in hardback. Undoubtedly one of the biggest travel books of the year. A journey of discovery and rediscovery which sets Theroux's experience of the dark continent against his journey forty years previously. "You would have to be made of very obdurate stuff indeed not to be riveted! moved and enriched by this book" "Sunday Telegraph". Zusammenfassung Offers an account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, the author visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous.

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Paul Theroux

Product details

• Authors: Paul Theroux
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2003
• EAN: 9780140281118
• ISBN: 978-0-14-028111-8
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Africa; Reiseberichte, Reiseerinnerungen (div.), Afrika : Berichte, Erinnerungen, Safari, c 2000 to c 2009