Well, here at NatGeo, we save the earth by not going to work. Win and win. No, you cannot have my job. Anywho, this post is a bit of a follow-up to yesterday's (I blogged about my new-to-my-top-10-faves book, Dark Star Safari). About 150 pages into the book, I noticed that Theroux often mentions books by other authors. So I started noting them down on the napkin I was using as my bookmark. By the end of the book, that little Continental cocktail napkin (from my trip to Texas) was covered, back and front, with a new book list.
So here it is:
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Unbearable Bassington - Saki
Killing Rage - Eamon Collin
Lords of Poverty - Graham Hancock
The Road to Hell - Michael Maren
Africa Betrayed - George Ayittey
Africa in Chaos - George Ayittey
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - John Henry Patterson
Sunrise with Seamonsters - Paul Theroux
Animal Farm - George Orwell
African Tears: The Zimbabwe Land Invasions - Catherine Buckle
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka - Nikalay Gogol
Echos of an Autobiography - Naguib Mahfouz
Jump - Nadine Gordimer
Watcher by the Dead in Winter - Ambrose Bierce
The Soft Voice of the Serpent - Nadine Gordimer
July's People - Nadine GordimerA Guest of Honor - Nadine Gordimer
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Jungle Lovers - Paul Theroux
The Return of Water - Kimball Taylor
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Les Onze Mille Verges - Guillaume Apollinaire
Seven Days at the Silbersteins - Etienne Leroux
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
Volksmoorde/Genocide - Hattingh Fourie
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
I have read many books about Africa, but I've never read any of these, have you?
Anywho, hope you enjoy your weekend!
Happy Earth Day! (I will be hitting up the Environmental Film Festival and the Earth Day Festival and Concert on the Mall.)
