(I took 17 pages of notes - here goes...)
begins by telling us why he made the trip: "I wanted the pleasure of being in Africa again." and that he sat down to write it a year later - sums it all up and says, "Such a paragraph needs some explanation - at least a book; this book perhaps." (1)
this seems to be quite the ambitious travel book - 500 pages - can he keep my interest for so long?
Africa's gotten worse - imagines his old Africa in the upheaval of the 90's
pg 3: "The wish to disappear sends many travellers away..." He wants to escape cell phones and emails - curious reason but understandable
pg 4: best and pettiest reasons to go: discovery and escape
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