The Lunatic Express: The Magnificent Saga of the Railway's Journey into Africa by Charles Miller, Christian Wolmar

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

Charles Miller, Christian Wolmar

590 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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