Dark Star Safari

Dark Star Safari (2003) by Paul Theroux – Penguin Books
From Crappy Old Books – travel-stained and time-worn, just like the author.

In Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux sets out on a grumpy, glorious journey overland from Cairo to Cape Town, grumbling across borders, dodging bureaucracy, and interrogating the state of post-colonial Africa with equal parts wit and weariness. This isn’t your typical gap-year travelogue—it’s sharp, unfiltered, and refreshingly free of Instagrammable sunsets.

Theroux revisits the continent where he once taught in the Peace Corps, and what he finds decades later is both sobering and slyly funny. Along the way: armed escorts, unreliable minibuses, and the occasional philosophical crisis.

Our copy? It’s been places—creased, slightly sun-faded, and possibly used as a coaster. A perfect companion for your own armchair safari.

Crappy Old Books – Because books should look like they’ve lived a little.

Very good condition, except that it has protective plastic applied to the out covers to protect them, which looks a bit odd, but will make your book last forever. You can hardly see the tape in the image, but its just disernable at the top of the image to the left of the penguin logo, in line with the laft part of the letter U in the autors name.

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