Day: September 9, 2018
Africa
Book reviews
Books
South Africa
Book review- The Last Train to Zona Verde
In The Last Train to Zona Verde, American writer Paul Theroux journeys along the western side of Africa starting from Cape Town, the continent’s southernmost city. It’s an ambitious trip, Theroux’s last in Africa, that would have seen him travel up the western part of the continent. But Theroux does not complete it. Dispirited, beaten down and […]
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Book review- Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
The Trans-Siberian Express is one of the world’s most famous transcontinental journeys, spanning Russia from Moscow to Siberia. But in American novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux’s Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, the Trans-Siberian is merely his way back home after a gruelling journey from London to Tokyo across Asia, mostly by train. Theroux crossed […]
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