Do Travel Writers Get Africa Right?
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 05.03.04 | 8:25 PM ET
Often they don’t, writes Jeevan Vasagar in Friday’s Guardian. “[W]hen confronted with the breadth and complexity of Africa, most travel writing simply fails,” Vasagar writes. “[P]erhaps the miserable writer should just stay in a five-star hotel now and then, take an air-conditioned bus and give the continent a break.” Vasagar criticism targets specific writers and books, including Paul Theroux’s “Dark Star Safari” and Shiva Naipaul’s “North of South.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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