Dark Star Safari (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Theroux
- Type of Work: Travel
- Time of Work: Early 2001
- Setting: Eastern Africa
- Principal Characters: Paul Theroux, Naguib Mahfouz, Sadiq al-Mahdi, Fiona, Apolo Nsibambi, David Rubadiri, Nadine Gordimer
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Traveling or travelers, Politics, Prisoners, Authors or writers, Literature, Twenty-first century, Developing countries, Corruption, Egypt or Egyptians, South Africa or South Africans, AIDS
Paul Theroux is well known as the author of travel books. The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (1975), about Theroux’s ride on a series of trains across Asia, virtually reinvented the travel book as a genre and paved the way for its considerable viability on the publishing scene of the last part of the twentieth century. He went on to write similar books covering Latin America, China, the Mediterranean region, and Oceania. Until now, though, Africa—the continent where he had begun his wiring career, where he had written and set his first few novels, and of which he...
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