THE LUNATIC EXPRESS

By Charles Miller

Synopsis

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. This book explores the building of this great railway but 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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Narrator Jeremy Neville
Length 22hrs 30mins
Catalogue No. 14531
Publisher Penguin; 2002