Most of the other shops were in fact impossible to identify. When a shop appeared to sell a mixture of ghetto blasters, socks, soap and chickens, it didn’t seem unreasonable to go in and ask if they’d got any paper or toothpaste stuck away in one of their shelves as well, but they looked at me as if I was completely mad. Couldn’t I see that this was a ghetto blaster, socks, soap and chicken shop?

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter

Last Chance to See, ch. 3 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]
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Shopping in Kinshasa, Zaire.

Though the trip to see the northern white rhino was taken, and the chapter about it is in the book, it was not included in the BBC Radio series (1989).

Adams reading the 1992 audiobook can be heard here.