Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo
- the hard way. Traveling across bush & desert down rivers & across lakes & through country after country Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth & some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery & of rediscovery
- of the unknown & the unexpected but also of people & places he knew as a young & optimistic teacher forty years before. Safari in Swahili simply means journey & this is the ultimate safari. It is Theroux in his element
- a trip where chance encounter is everything where departure & arrival times are an irrelevance & where contentment can be found balancing on the top of a truck in the middle of nowhere.