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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
de Theroux, Paul
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- Estado
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- ISBN 10
- 0618134247
- ISBN 13
- 9780618134243
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Houghton Mifflin. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($28.00 price intact). Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Octavo. Black cloth over black boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Author's portrait laid in. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 472 pages. ISBN: 9780618134243. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Sinopsis
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.
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- Librería
- Southampton Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 151739
- Título
- Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
- Autor
- Theroux, Paul
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Like New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618134247
- ISBN 13
- 9780618134243
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2003-03-23
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