Theroux travels from Cairo to Cape Town, and reflects on the Africa he knew 20 years ago versus Africa today. 

I was struck by how his comments so elegantly stated the case for what I crudely tried to state about technology and wilderness travel in another discussion thread. 

He wrote, "Out of touch in Africa was where I wanted to be....  Travel in the African bush can also be a sort of revenge on cellular phones and fax machines, on telephones and the daily paper, on the creepier aspects of globalization that allow anyone who wishes to get his insinuating hands on you...  I was going to Africa for the best reason -- in a spirit of discovery; and for the pettiest -- simply to disappear, ...  As Huck put it, "lighting out for the territory."

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