Dark star safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town - Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo — the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country — Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa — he visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery — of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before.