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Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Traveling across bush and desert down rivers and across lakes and through country after country Theroux 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. Safari in Swahili simply means journey and this is the ultimate safari. It is Theroux in his element - a trip where chance encounter is everything where departure and arrival times are an irrelevance and where contentment can be found balancing on the top of a truck in the middle of nowhere.
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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.

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