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AFRICA / TRANS-SAHARAN RAILWAY / CAGLIARI IMPRINT

Leone PALADINI.

Cagliari: Tip. Del Commercio 1879.

Leone Paladini was an Italian engineer, who surveyed parts of Sahara and presented a possibility to build a railway between the port town of Gabès in Tunisia and north towns of Nigeria (which is in the pamphlet referred with the old name Sudan), suggesting Sokoto, Kano or Katsina as possible end destinations.

Paladini published his researches first in 1866-67 in a magazine Il Cittadino di Trieste, in 1867 in Paris in publication La chemin de fer de Biskra a Kachena, a travers le Grand Desert and in the present pamphlet.

The book was published on the eve of the French takeover of Tunisia, when the European powers were eying the coasts of north Africa as areas of economical and colonial expansion.

We could not trace any institutional examples on Worldcat.

References: Cf.: Lodovico Corio, I Commerci Dell’Africa. Notizie Di Geografia Commerciale, 1890, p. 430.