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Paul Theroux Paul Theroux discusses Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown. —from the publisher's website 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 motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. I got sick, I got stranded, but I was never bored. In fact, my trip was a delight and a revelation. Seeing firsthand what is happening across Africa, Theroux is as obsessively curious and wittily observant as always, and his readers will find themselves on an epic and enlightening journey. Dark Star Safari is one of his bravest and best books. (timspalding)… (more) Paul Theroux has 9 past events. (show) The SAN FRANCISCO TRAVEL BOOK CLUB and LECTURE SERIES at Books Inc. in The Marina The SAN FRANCISCO TRAVEL BOOK CLUB and LECTURE SERIES will discuss The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux. Location: Books Inc. Street: 2251 Chestnut St City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound) The Mostly Fiction Book Club at Books Inc. Mountain View The MOSTLY FICTION BOOK CLUB GROUP will discuss The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari by Paul Theroux. Location: Books Inc. Street: 301 Castro St City: Mountain View, Province: California Country: United States (added from IndieBound)Paul Theroux - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star PAUL THEROUX Paul Theroux discusses Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar. Legendary travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux will discuss and sign his new book, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar. Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his clasic work, The Great Railway Bazaar. Theroux re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan and Siberia. In the three decades since, that world has undergone phenomenal change. And no one is better able to capture the texture, sights, smells and sounds of that changing landscape than Theroux. (bookjones)… (more) Paul Theroux - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
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