Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
- ISBN-10
- 0618446877
- ISBN-13
- 9780618446872
- Series
- Dark Star Safari
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 485
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Paul Theroux
Description
The author recounts his odyssey down the length of Africa, from Cairo to South Africa, describing the bad food, many delays, discomforts, and dangers of his trip, along with the people and places of the real Africa.
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