"The Lunatic Express" is the saga of the turbulent international race for the mastery and development of an immense region of East Africa that all but visionaries thought worthless. It is the narrative of the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway itself - the colossal six-year enterprise that was to cost #5,000,000 and countless lives, from derailments, collisions, disease, tribal raids and the assaults of wild animals. It is a diorama of an earlier Africa of slave and ivory empires, of sultans and tribal ...
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"The Lunatic Express" is the saga of the turbulent international race for the mastery and development of an immense region of East Africa that all but visionaries thought worthless. It is the narrative of the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway itself - the colossal six-year enterprise that was to cost #5,000,000 and countless lives, from derailments, collisions, disease, tribal raids and the assaults of wild animals. It is a diorama of an earlier Africa of slave and ivory empires, of sultans and tribal monarchs and the vast lands that they ruled. Above all, it is the story of the white intruders whose combination of avarice, honour and tenacious courage made them a breed apart.
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Book. Octavo; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, white with brown and black print, illustration; DJ has small portion at top of spine torn away, toning to spine, small tear in front flap fold, edgewear, shelfwear, price-clipped; Boards quarter bound with red cloth to spine and black cloth to boards, light wear to spine caps, else clean and strong; Text block has slight tanning to endpapers, else clean and tight; xii, 559 pages, illustrated (b&w). 1335913. FP New Rockville Stock.
