Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
- ISBN-10
- 0141037296
- ISBN-13
- 9780141037295
- Series
- Dark Star Safari
- Category
- Africa
- Pages
- 494
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-09-01
- Authors
- Paul Theroux, Paul
Description
Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari is a journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town. He travels across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, through Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Encompassing some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth - and some of the most dangerous - Dark Star Safari is a powerful love letter to the continent of Africa.
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Other editions
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- 2004
- 485 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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