{"product_id":"9781940207865","title":"Saturnalia: Traveling from Cape Town to Kampala in Search of an African Utopia","description":"In the Spring of 2012, reporter and travel junkie Justin Chapman threw his cares to the wind and, by himself, set off on an epic journey across eight countries in Africa — from Cape Town, South Africa, to Mityana, Uganda — by bus, train, and boat. Along the way, he narrowly escaped being locked away in a mental institution, visited an impoverished township that is changing its future with the help of an art-based nonprofit, got into a life-threatening car crash, dropped acid on the mystical island of Zanzibar, lived with a group of Catholic priests, witnessed a witchcraft healing ceremony, discovered a pygmy opium den, and chased down riveting stories with a local journalist. He crossed cultural boundaries, found love and companionship in unusual places, and stared death — with all its visceral stench and gore — directly in the eyeballs. \u003ci\u003eSaturnalia\u003c\/i\u003e is an engrossing cultural anthropological treatise like none other. By embarking on a journey of self-discovery and survival, Chapman explores what Africa really has to offer, and in the process, discovers surprising and unexpected relationships between people and places.","brand":"Rare Bird Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154468651248,"sku":"9781940207865","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940207865_p0.jpg?v=1763668712","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940207865","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}