The Last Train to Zona Verde : Overland from Cape Town to Angola
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey takes him north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, along Africa's western edge. Though the end of the line is the Congo, Theroux discovers that his trip'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 though this will be his ultimate African adventure, there are still surprises to be found by the traveller prepared to step off the beaten track. A melancholic farewell journey told with brutal honesty and pithy observation, this is Theroux at his finest—a sharp observer of human nature and an unflinching chronicler of a continent in flux.
As the Sunday Times notes, he is "probably the most important travel writer of his generation," and as we worry about the future of Africa, there could be no better guide than Theroux on this powerful final journey through the continent that shaped him.
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