"Dark Star Safari" is Paul Theroux's classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town. Crossing savannas and deserts, rivers and lakes, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, but also the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and rediscovery - of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of the people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years ago. "Safari" in Swahili simply means "journey," and this is the ultimate safari. It is Theroux in full action - a journey where random encounters are everything, where departure and arrival times are indifferent, and where pleasure can be found balanced on top of a truck in the middle of nowhere.

Praise for Paul Theroux:

"Theroux’s work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged" - Observer

"It takes energy to keep up with the extraordinary, prolific restlessness of Paul Theroux... [He is] the most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation" - Jonathan Raban

"Always a terrific narrator and magician of exotic landscapes, he writes lean prose that builds with a gliding deftness" - Sunday Times

Paul Theroux’s books include "Dark Star Safari", "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star", "Riding the Iron Rooster", "The Great Railway Bazaar", "The Elephanta Suite", "A Dead Hand", "The Tao of Travel", and "The Lower River". "The Mosquito Coast" and "Dr Slaughter" have also been made into successful films.