Books by Paul Theroux FICTION Waldo Fong and the Indians Girls at Play Murder in Mount Holly Jungle Lovers Sinning with Annie Saint Jack The Black House The Family Arsenal The Consul’s File A Christmas Card Picture Palace London Snow World’s End The Mosquito Coast The London Embassy Half Moon Street O-Zone My Secret History Chicago Loop Millroy the Magician My Other Life Kowloon Tong Hotel Honolulu The Stranger at the Palazzo d’Oro Blinding Light The Elephanta Suite A Dead Hand The Lower River CRITICISM V. S. Naipaul NONFICTION The Great Railway Bazaar The Old Patagonian Express The Kingdom by the Sea Sailing Through China Sunrise with Seamonsters The Imperial Way Riding the Iron Rooster To the Ends of the Earth The Happy Isles of Oceania The Pillars of Hercules Sir Vidia’s Shadow Fresh Air Fiend Dark Star Safari Ghost Train to the Eastern Star The Tao of Travel The Last Train to Zona Verde Copyright © 2013 by Paul Theroux Published simultaneously in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher – or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency – is an infringement of the copyright law. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication available upon request eISBN: 978-0-77108522-2 Maps by Jacques Chazaud McClelland & Stewart, a division of Random House of Canada Limited One Toronto Street Suite 300 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2V6 www.mcclelland.com v3.1 To Albert and Freddy, Sylvie and Enzo, with love from Grandpa When my father used to travel, he didn’t fear the night. But had he all his toes? — Bakongo (Angola) proverb God almighty said to Moses, peace be upon him: Take an iron staff and wear iron sandals, and then tour the earth until the staff is broken and the shoes are worn out. — Muhammad bin al-Sarraj, Uns al-Sari wa-al sarib (A Companion to Day and Night Travelers), 1630, translated by Nabil Matar Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Maps 1. AMONG THE UNREAL PEOPLE 2. THE TRAIN FROM KHAYELITSHA 3. CAPE TOWN: THE SPIRIT OF THE CAPE 4. THE NIGHT BUS TO WINDHOEK 5. NIGHT TRAIN FROM SWAKOPMUND 6. THE BUSH TRACK TO TSUMKWE 7. CEREMONY AT THE CROSSROADS 8. AMONG THE REAL PEOPLE 9. RIDING AN ELEPHANT: THE ULTIMATE SAFARI 10. THE HUNGRY HERDS AT ETOSHA 11. THE FRONTIER OF BAD KARMA 12. THREE PIECES OF CHICKEN 13. VOLUNTEERING IN LUBANGO 14. THE SLAVE YARDS OF BENGUELA 15. LUANDA: THE IMPROVISED CITY 16. “THIS IS WHAT THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE WHEN IT ENDS” 17. WHAT AM I DOING HERE?
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