The Lunatic

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Release : 2012-03
Genre : Fiction
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The Lunatic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lunatic write by Mohi Ismail. This book was released on 2012-03. The Lunatic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first human literary novel written by an Egyptian star that predicted the Egyptian revolution of January 25th, 2011. Mohi Ismail is the first Egyptian Actor and Star to write a literary novel. He studied philosophy, psychology, and acting. He was awarded by the Egyptian president Anwar El Sadat for his outstanding movie roles in 1977. He also has received numerous International awards for his work.

The Lunatic Express

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Release : 2015-07-13
Genre : Transportation
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The Lunatic Express - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lunatic Express write by Charles Miller. This book was released on 2015-07-13. The Lunatic Express available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa to perform an engineering miracle: the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway – a 600-mile route that was largely unmapped and barely explored. Behind Mombasa lay a scorched, waterless desert. Beyond, a horizonless scrub country climbed toward a jagged volcanic region bisected by the Great Rift Valley. A hundred miles of sponge-like quagmire marked the railway's last lap. The entire right of way bristled with hostile tribes, teemed with lions and breathed malaria. What was the purpose of this 'giant folly' and whom would it benefit? Was it to exploit the rumoured wealth of little-known central African kingdoms? Was it to destroy the slave trade? To encourage commerce and settlement? THE LUNATIC EXPRESS explores the building of this great railway in an earlier Africa of slave and ivory empires, of tribal monarchs and the vast lands that they ruled. Above all, it is the story of the white intruders whose combination of avarice, honour and tenacious courage made them a breed apart.

The Lunatic

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Release : 2007-06-01
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The Lunatic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lunatic write by Anthony C. Winkler. This book was released on 2007-06-01. The Lunatic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman. . . . “By far the funniest book I’ve read in a decade” (The Washington Post Book World). In Jamaica, Aloysius is tolerated by his neighbors, but forced to eke out a living by doing odd jobs and use the hospitable woodlands for shelter. Starved of human companionship, he has running conversations with trees and plants. Then love, or a peculiar version of it, comes to Aloysius in the form of a solidly built German lady, Inga Schmidt, who has come to the Caribbean to photograph the flora and fauna. They will embark on a romance and a series of misadventures that may turn the island, and their lives, upside down . . . “Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit.” —Marlon James

The Lunatic Express

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Release : 2011-06-07
Genre : Travel
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The Lunatic Express - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lunatic Express write by Carl Hoffman. This book was released on 2011-06-07. The Lunatic Express available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he went, spending six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances: the statistically most dangerous airlines, the most crowded and dangerous ferries, the slowest buses, and the most rickety trains. The Lunatic Express takes us into the heart of the world, to some its most teeming cities and remotest places: from Havana to Bogotá on the perilous Cuban Airways. Lima to the Amazon on crowded night buses where the road is a washed-out track. Across Indonesia and Bangladesh by overcrowded ferries that kill 1,000 passengers a year. On commuter trains in Mumbai so crowded that dozens perish daily, across Afghanistan as the Taliban closes in, and, scariest of all, Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., by Greyhound. The Lunatic Express is the story of traveling with seatmates and deckmates who have left home without American Express cards on conveyances that don't take Visa, and seldom take you anywhere you'd want to go. But it's also the story of traveling as it used to be—a sometimes harrowing trial, of finding adventure in a modern, rapidly urbanizing world and the generosity of poor strangers, from ear cleaners to urban bus drivers to itinerant roughnecks, who make up most of the world's population. More than just an adventure story, The Lunatic Express is a funny, harrowing and insightful look at the world as it is, a planet full of hundreds of millions of people, mostly poor, on the move and seeking their fortunes.

The Lunatic

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Release : 2007-06-01
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The Lunatic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lunatic write by Anthony C. Winkler. This book was released on 2007-06-01. The Lunatic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first-ever US publication of this Caribbean classic upon which a feature film by the same title is based.