Road to Tanganyika

"This is a story of the most ambitious road-building project in Africa in its time as seen through the eyes of two Scottish pioneers in the early 1880s. The dream of European missionaries and merchants in the early history of modern Malawi (then Nyasaland) was to develop commercial trade routes throughout East and Central Africa utilising the great system of lakes to reach the Indian Ocean, and the completion of the Stevenson Road linking Lake Tanganyika with Lake Nyasa was seen as crucial." "Following a Foreword by Dr T. Jack Thompson, a very full introduction sets the geographical, historical and socio-political background to this great enterprise, but the story is essentially that of two intrepid Scots engineers and their courage and faith shown in the detailed daily extracts from their recently discovered personal dairies. The tragic death of William McEwan, as reported by his colleague Donald Munro, highlights the constant dangers faced by these early pioneers in the country that was to become Malawi."--BOOK JACKET.McCarthy, James is the author of 'Road to Tanganyika', published 2006 under ISBN 9789990876451 and ISBN 9990876452.