The Flying Train: A journey of fantastic and futuristic adventures

Synopsis:
Two Europeans, Otto (German) and Mateo (Greek) disembark in Zanzibar on the morning of August 15, 1900 to go to the rescue of an English explorer, surnamed Kambert, who had left Zanzibar years before to explore the western bank of the Great Lake Tanganyika. The explorer who for a year had been in the power of a tribe of ferocious natives who had taken him prisoner to Kilembo, in the Kassongo, had managed to send a bag hanging from the horn of an antelope, promising to indicate whoever would rescue him, as a reward, the location of a mountain that contained untold riches, accumulated over centuries, by the indigenous people of Kassongo.
About the Author:

Italian writer, Emilio Salgari was born in Verona, Italy, on August 21, 1862, and died in Turin, Italy, on April 25, 1911. The son of a merchant family, as a young man he served aboard a ship that toured the Adriatic and Mediterranean coast, but there is no evidence that he made more voyages by sea, although he claimed that the exotic places that appeared in his books were based on sites that he had personally visited.
Salgari began to prepare at the Royal Naval Technical Institute P. Sarpi in Venice, but did not get to obtain the title of captain that he longed for. His action-packed novels were many, but he is probably best known for creating the character of Sandokan.
Despite his success, Salgari was one of the best-selling authors of his generation, he lived in relative misery that, together with the mental imbalance of his wife, the theater actress Ida Peruzzi, with whom he had four children, led him to commit suicide in 1911 by performing the traditional rite of Hara-kiri.
Salgari wrote a total of eighty-four novels and countless stories, highlighting titles such as The Tigers of Mompracen or The Pirates of Malaysia. Several of his books have been made into a movie and his main character, Sandokan, has starred in a television series.