Publisher's Synopsis
A plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of Western colonial rule, largely under the vision of Cecil Rhodes, in the attempt to connect adjacent African possessions of the British Empire through a continuous line from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt. This volume covers the Southern Railway Section, The Rhodesian Railways, The Great Zambezi Bridge, The Victoria Falls, The Kafue River Bridge, The Kafue River Valley, The Northern Express, Bukama to Stanleyville, The Congo Railways and Steamer Services, The Lever Interests, Kinshasa and Stanley Pool, Boma, The Birth of the Nile, Jinja to Nimule, Lake Albert to GondoKoro, Fighting Floating Islands on the Nile, The Upper Nile Valley, Uganda to the Sudan Frontier, The Great Sudd Region, At Khartoum, The Railway System of the Sudan, The Sudan Military Railways, The Grandeur of Abu Simbel, The Nile Delta, and the Suez Canal.
