Dark Star Safari

Dark Star Safari

By
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
2002 • 495 pages

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87 books

The Best Travel Books of All Time by Condé Nast

hardcover
Hardcover
Along the Ganges
Among the Cities
Arabian Sands
An Area of Darkness
Blue highways
Cross Country
Dark Star Safari

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63 books

Kenya

Daren
Daren
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
My Kenya Days
Who Wanders Alone
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Africa on a Tightrope
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain

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41 books

Uganda

Daren
Daren
The Long Walks: Journeys to the Sources of the White Nile
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
Off the Rails
Dirtroads
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
Beyond the Devil's Teeth : Journeys in Gondwanaland
The White Nile

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75 books

Calibre

LazyZog
Zoe
Stand Up for Autism: A Boy, a Dog, and a Prescription for Laughter
A Sense of the World
Running Blind: An Alternative View of the London Marathon
Making It Happen

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0 books

Owned

beau
Beau Gunderson
Unweaving the Rainbow
On the Road
Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination
The Sparrow
The Difference Engine
Chuck Amuck

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554 books

Non Fiction

Lemons
Danielle
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
The Dark Queens
The World's Worst Assistant
The Natural Mother of the Child
America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

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241 books

Africana

geirertz
Geir
Discourse on Colonialism
The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
Critique of Black Reason
On the postcolony
The Wretched of the Earth
Decolonising the Mind
State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

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434 books

Faction

geirertz
Geir
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
We Should All Be Feminists
Hersketeknikker: Nyttige og nådeløse
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
God, Human, Animal, Machine

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118 books

Reiselitteratur

geirertz
Geir
Ways of Going Home
Eye on the world
Slow Boats Home
In Search of Conrad
Sailing through China
The Imperial Way: By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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90 books

Non Fiction

Tzusanna
ChristineSupporter
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
The Man Who Ate Everything
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
The Princes in the Tower
The Wars of the Roses
Washington: A Life
John Adams

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91 books

My Books6

scubed
Sagar
The Kingdom by the Sea
IIM Ahmedabad Business Books: Day to Day Economics
Dark Star Safari
Granta 112: Pakistan
Granta 127: Japan
Granta 130: India: Another Way of Seeing

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120 books

On The Road

DebNance
Deb Nance
Waiting for Augusta
Lonesome Dove
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Turn South at the Second Bridge
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia
Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales

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332 books

Travel

DebNance
Deb Nance
China road
Blue highways
Geisha, a Life
The greatest skating race
Travels with Charley
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
The Housekeeper and the Professor

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1,039 books

Nonfiction

DebNance
Deb Nance
Barefoot Books World Atlas Sticker Book
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Sinister Savannah
Deadly Spider Bite!
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick
Skulls!
Half-Earth

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589 books

Adventure

DebNance
Deb Nance
Shadow of a bull
Call It Courage
Blue highways
Holes
The greatest skating race
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
The Door in the Wall

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1,259 books

Tbr Wayback

NeedMoreShelves
Elizabeth
News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir
A Box of Matches
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
American Hero
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
A Parchment of Leaves
Beyond the Gap

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3,780 books

Tbr

NeedMoreShelves
Elizabeth
Fatherland
Trainspotting
News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir
A Box of Matches
A Fine and Private Place
Absolute Beginners
A Flag for Sunrise

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733 books

Tbr Nonfiction

NeedMoreShelves
Elizabeth
News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
All the Lives I Want
Binge

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2,756 books

Owned

Daren
Daren
Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
The Snake

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1,513 books

Travel

Daren
Daren
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus

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2,154 books

Non Fiction

Daren
Daren
Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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555 books

Usa Author

Daren
Daren
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
Lucky You
Magician: Apprentice
Silverthorn
Prince of the Blood
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
The Fires of Heaven

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201 books

5 Star

Daren
Daren
Vurt
The Marsh Arabs
Who Wanders Alone
My Kenya Days
Samarkand and Beyond: A History Of Desert Caravans
First Overland
Madman's Island

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41 books

Ethiopia

Daren
Daren
High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain
The Coronation of Haile Selassie
Cult of the Sacred Spear: The Story of the Nuer Tribe in Ethiopia
Walking the Nile
From The Roof Of Africa
In Ethiopia with a Mule
The Mountains Of Rasselas

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47 books

Sudan

Daren
Daren
Bagpipes in Babylon: A Lifetime in the Arab World and Beyond
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth
High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain
Off the Rails
Walking the Nile
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