The release date for the English version of 'Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town' by
Paul Theroux is Apr 2004. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The charmingly witty and charmingly irascible Paul Theroux travels the length of Africa in Dark Star Safari, taking readers on adventures via rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, livestock truck, military convoy, boat, and train. He encounters danger, delay, and disheartening conditions along his epic and illuminating voyage.
He converses with missionaries, tourists, relief workers, and Africans to assess the situation. The end product is a perceptive analysis of the politics, history, and natural beauty of Africa and its people.
Theroux describes the extraordinary circumstances of a trip back to Africa to see Zimbabwe in a new postscript.