The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey. Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge.
The end of the line is the Congo but Theroux discovers that his trip's pleasures are tempered żeby a growing sense that the Africa which so long ago helped form him has vanished, along with the hopes of many of its people ...