Title: Britain and East Africa in the Nineteenth Century
Review: This is a fascinating sketch, at the level of the casual reader, of a collection of events surrounding the eventual establishment of a railroad from Mombasa to Lake Victoria. The places of the story will be familiar to those who have visited Kenya and Uganda. Reading about the chaotic interplay of abolitionist sentiment, imperialism, and common sense that leads to the eventual, strange decision to build the railroad may help us understand the apparently crazy decisions of today's free-world governments. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to know what it was like to live in Africa in those times and who will enjoy anecdotes about the people who did it.
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