Theroux's train trip through Africa a stylish and illuminating departure

**The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola**

**By Paul Theroux**

**Hamish Hamilton, €16.35**

Although Paul Theroux's 1975 The Great Railway Bazaar - tracking his train journey across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia - quickly became a classic, it was his first foray into a genre he viewed with suspicion. "The travel book was a bore. A bore wrote it and bores read it," he claimed. "It annoyed ...