The Lunatic Express

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 u5,000,000 and countless lives, from derailments, collisions, disease, tribal raids and the assaults of wild animals."