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A railway to nowhere : the building of the Lunatic Line, 1896-1901 / Stephen Mills & Brian Yonge.
Lippincott Library HE3418.5 .M55 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mills, Stephen, 1949 May 4-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Uganda Railway.
- Railroads--Africa, East--History.
- Railroads.
- Uganda Railway--History.
- History.
- Africa, East.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 265 pages, 28 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Nairobi, Kenya] : Mills Publishing, 2012.
- Contents:
- In the beginning
- The scramble for Africa
- The initial survey
- Laying the first rail
- Crossing the Taru Desert
- Drought, famine & smallpox
- Man-eating lions!
- Washouts & derailments
- Across the Rift Valley
- Over the Mau
- The last spike.
- Notes:
- Incorporates adaptation of a manuscript written by Brian Yonge.
- Includes bibliographical references (page [288-289]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9966709436
- 9789966709431
- OCLC:
- 829027539
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