Publisher's brown faux leather binding with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated dust jacket.
154pp. Illustrated.
A clean and tight copy. Jacket bright and as new.
'This detailed account of the birth of narrow gauge railways in South West Africa, the struggle against geography and the tribulations of War, and in some cases their supplanting by lines of a wider gauge, is the result of some twenty years of research by the joint authors. Much of what is told survives in written form nowhere else, for documentation of the narrow gauge in Africa, unlike Britain, has never been strong. Probably the world will never see again a situation where the narrow gauge train was the only means of movement, for carrying water, for a funeral, for a weekend picnic, for the Government's officers to do their business. These lines which spread through the deep gorges and across the drifting sands had a character all of their own.' - editor's note
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- Overall Condition: Near Fine
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