Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" and "The Great Railway Bazaar" "The Last Train to Zona Verde" is an ode to the last African journey of the world's most celebrated travel writer Paul Theroux. 'Happy again back in the kingdom of light ' writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey though the continent he knows and loves best. Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari he sets out this time from Cape Town heading northwards in a new direction up the left-hand side through South Africa and Namibia to Botswana then on into Angola heading for the Congo in search of the end of the line. Journeying alone through the greenest continent in what he feels will be his last African journey Theroux encounters a world increasingly removed from both the intineraries of tourists and the hopes of post-colonial independence movements. Leaving the Cape Town townships traversing the Namibian bush passing the browsing cattle of the great sunbaked heartland of the savannah Theroux crosses "the Red Line" into a different Africa: "the improvised slapped-together Africa of tumbled fences and cooking fires of mud and thatch" of heat and poverty and of roadblocks mobs and anarchy. A final African adventure from the writer whose gimlet eye and effortless prose have brought the world to generations of readers "The Last Train to Zona Verde" is Paul Theroux's ultimate safari. Praise for Paul Theroux: "Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling pace". ("Sunday Times"). "One needs energy to keep up with the extraordinary productive restlessness of Paul Theroux...[He is] the most gifted most prodigal writer of his generation". (Jonathan Raban). "His ability to sum up a city or a people in a few lines is undiminished". ("Daily Telegraph"). Paul Theroux's books include "Dark Star Safari" "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" "Riding the Iron Rooster" "The Great Railway Bazaar" "The Elephanta Suite" "A Dead Hand" "The Tao of Travel" and "The Lower River". "The Mosquito Coast" and "Dr Slaughter" have both been made into successful films. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands."
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