Dark star safari : overland from Cairo to Cape Town / Paul Theroux.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.Edition: 1st Mariner Books edDescription: 485 p. : maps ; 21 cmISBN:- 0618446877
- 9780618446872
- 916.043 22 THE
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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General Books | CUTN Central Library History & Geography | Non-fiction | 916.043 THE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Gifted / Donated Books | 29170 |
"A Mariner book."
"With a new postscript"--Cover.
1. Lighting Out --
2. The Mother of the World --
3. Up and Down the Nile --
4. The Dervishes of Omdurman --
5. The Osama Road to Nubia --
6. The Djibouti Line to Harar --
7. The Longest Road in Africa --
8. Figawi Safari on the Bandit Road --
9. Rift Valley Days --
10. Old Friends in Bat Valley --
11. The MV Umoja Across Lake Victoria --
12. The Bush Train to Dar es Salaam --
13. The Kilimanjaro Express to Mbeya --
14. Through the Outposts of the Plateau --
15. The Back Road to Soche Hill School --
16. River Safari to the Coast --
17. Invading Drummond's Farm --
18. The Bush Border Bus to South Africa --
19. The Hominids of Johannesburg --
20. The Wild Things at Mala Mala --
21. Faith, Hope, and Charity on the Limpopo Line --
22. The Trans-Karoo Express to Cape Town --
23. Blue Train Blues.
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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