Letters From the Sudan. E-book. Formato PDF E. F. Knight   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The extension of the railway from Balianeh to Assuan is now being pushed on as rapidly as possible. The embankments are almost completed, the bridge across the Nile at Edfu is in course of construction, and it is confidently expected by the engineers that this very important railway, affording direct communication between the coast and Nubia, will be Open in about twelve months. From Assuan the railway will be continued to Korosko — engineers are now surveying this portion of the line — and from Korosko it will probably be carried across the Nubian desert, by the wells of Murat, to Abu Hamed, but before this can be done the power of Mahdism must of course have been broken.

The 'Falcon' On the Baltic: A Coasting Voyage From Hammersmith to Copenhagen in a Three-Ton Yacht. E-book. Formato PDF E. F. Knight   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

IN the summer of '86 I was without my favourite toy, a yacht, and had no intention of purchasing a vessel. I had just returned from a winter cruise about the Spanish Main and through the West Indies, and any voyage more extensive than a boating expedition on the upper Thames was quite out of my mind, when I by chance came across a boat lying at Hammersmith of all unlikely places which appeared to me to be singularly adapted for the realisation of one of my earliest yachting dreams.