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Quick Book Review: Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
"A good friend recently recommended this book to me. I set Hayek's Road To Serfdom down for a bit and jumped into Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo To Cape Town. Published March 2003, 496 pp. Theroux is a prolific travel writer, and this book chronicles his journey the length of Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town. This was most definitely not luxury travel. Theroux had no schedule, no reservations, and no cell phone. All he brought were the clothes he was wearing, cash. a duffle bag of a few things: books to read, blank journals, a couple of watches. He travelled by dugout canoe, walking hitchhiking, rickety bus or train, etc. Never by plane."
"A good friend recently recommended this book to me. I set Hayek's Road To Serfdom down for a bit and jumped into Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo To Cape Town. Published March 2003, 496 pp. Theroux is a prolific travel writer, and this book chronicles his journey the length of Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town. This was most definitely not luxury travel. Theroux had no schedule, no reservations, and no cell phone. All he brought were the clothes he was wearing, cash. a duffle bag of a few things: books to read, blank journals, a couple of watches. He travelled by dugout canoe, walking hitchhiking, rickety bus or train, etc. Never by plane."