Hardy, Ronald: The Iron Snake , London: Collins, 1965

Hardback, first edition, very good condition, in a fair - good unclipped (30s) dust-jacket - chipped and worn at edges, publisher's original dark grey clothboards with gilt blocking to spine, 318 pages, mapped end papers, b/w photo illustrations, contents include: Guns And Axle-Grease; Tea-And-Whiskey; No Epitaphs For Coolies; The Camp At Tsavo River; Headmen And Colonels; Printers And Pig-Eaters; A View Of The Lake; The Dogs Of Kali; The Watering-Place; Into The Rift And Over The Mau; The Three Hills Of Nandi------' the name was given to it by the wandering Kikuyu who watched it uncoil: the classic descriptionof it occurs in Sir Winston Churchill's "My African Journey": One of the most romantic and wonderful railways in the world. The line from Mombasa to Victoria Nyanza is still the mainspring of Kenya's economic life,' (Book ref. 2054)  £35.00

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