Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown | Ebook Reviews

I read the first one hundred pages (groaning in disgust most of the way) and then gave up. I understand that travel literature is supposed to enlighten, but I found nothing new in this derivative account of Africa. ... He also talks about arriving always without hotel reservations or plans, as if that's a vision of travel that has to be romanticized. I beg to disagree. Theroux might have seen more than the rich men who travel straight to a safari from an airport, ...