WASHINGTON, July 2. -- In continuation of United States Consul Ravndal's reports on the Cape to Cairo Railway, United States Vice Consul William C. Magelssen, Beirut, Syria, transmits on April 25 ...
During a period known as the "Scramble for Africa", in which European powers battled to colonise much of Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the idea of a continent-spanning ...
I associate the journey from Cape Town to Cairo with grand ... Suit in hand, I boarded a family-owned luxury train, the Rovos ...