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Iron Snake by Ronald Hardy Uganda Railway 1st American Edition Hard Cover
Iron Snake, The by Ronald Hardy Hard Cover
The Iron Snake
Ronald Hardy
Hard Cover
318 Pages
Copyright 1965 1st American Edition
Contents
PROLOGUEpage 15
I GUNS AND AXLE-GREASE45
2 TEA-AND-WHISKY61
3 NO EPITAPHS FOR COOLIES83
4 THE CAMP AT TSAVO RIVER109
5 HEADMEN AND COLONELS137
6 PRINTERS AND PIG-EATERS151
7 A VIEW OF THE LAKE171
8 THE DOGS OF KALI193
9 THE WATERING-PLACE220
I0 INTO THE RIFT AND OVER THE
MAU249
II THE THREE HILLS OF NANDI279
12 NYANZA295
EPILOGUE308
SOURCES317
Illustrations
facing page
Offloading railway material at Mombasa64
(East African Railways & Harbours)
The first train to leave Kilindini64
(East African Railways & Harbours)
A page from Turk's diary65
Ronald and Florence Preston at Tsavo96
Plate-laying gang shifting camp96
(East African Railways & Harbours)
A cutting near Voi97
(East African Railways & Harbours)
Temporary bridge between Elburgon and Molo 97 (East African Railways & Harbours)
In the Rift Valley256
(East African Railways & Harbours)
The railway today257
(East African Railways & Harbours)
Mail train on the Makupa Causeway288
(East African Railways & Harbrous)
Mail train in Great Rift Valley289
(East African Railways & Harbours)
`The two iron streaks of rail that wind away among the hills and foliage of Mombasa Island do not break their smooth monotony until, after piercing Equatorial forests, stretching across immense prairies, and climbing almost to the level of the European snow-line, they pause upon the edges of the Great Lake.
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