The Lunatic Express: The Magnificent Saga of the Railway's Journey Into Africa by Charles Miller

The Lunatic Express: The Magnificent Saga of the Railway's Journey Into Africa

Charles Miller

608 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
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In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa to perform an engineering miracle: the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway--a 600-mile route that was largely unmapped and barely explored. Behind Mombasa lay...

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