"What am I doing here?"

The Last Train to Zone Verde: My Ultimate African Safari is Paul Theroux's 16th travelogue. There is a lot of tongue-in-cheek here. For example, he travels by elephant back, hired tourist taxis, limousines and rickety old buses, but only twice on a train, and never in Angola. He missed a number of opportunities to ride on trains, he even missed the last train to Zona Verde, and then gave up, retreated, flew back to Cape Town instead of going on to West Africa. Zona Verde is not a specific destination, just an Angolan expression for ‘the bush’. Theroux claims he loves the bush and its hardships over any city, even when encased in the luxury of a five star hotel. He has a lot to say about the horrors of African cities.