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The Lunatic Express by Charles Miller: “The magnificent saga of how the white man changed Africa. The pioneers, visionaries, and politicians — and their crazy railway. The Lunatic Express is, on the one hand, the gripping narrative of the building of the railway itself — the colossal six-year enterprise that was to cost a mighty fortune in money and countless lives from derailments, collisions, disease, tribal raids and the assaults of wild ani
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