The Last Train To Zona Verde: Overland From Cape Town To Angola

Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola. Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of the line is the Congo but Theroux discovers that his trrip's pleasures are tempered by a growing sense that the Africa which so long ago helped form him has vanished, along with the hopes of many of its people. Yet after 2,500 miles, Theroux finds that through this will be his ultimate African adventure there are still surprises to be found by the traveller prepared to step off the beaten track. *This book may have minor shelfwear.