Footsteps Through Time - a History of Travel and Tourism to the Victoria Falls |
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| Author:
| Roberts, Peter |
| ISBN: | 979-8-7286-7574-7 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2021 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.40 |
Book Description:
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Exploring over 150 years of travel and tourism to the Victoria Falls, 'Footsteps Through Time' charts the evolution of a global tourism attraction. Discover the human heritage of this famous natural wonder and the people who have carved their names in its history - from the arrival of Dr David Livingstone in 1855, the coming of the railway and opening of the Victoria Falls Bridge fifty years later, to the development of international air travel and transformation into the...
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Exploring over 150 years of travel and tourism to the Victoria Falls, 'Footsteps Through Time' charts the evolution of a global tourism attraction. Discover the human heritage of this famous natural wonder and the people who have carved their names in its history - from the arrival of Dr David Livingstone in 1855, the coming of the railway and opening of the Victoria Falls Bridge fifty years later, to the development of international air travel and transformation into the modern tourism destination we know today.
This book compliments and expands on the author's two previous books on the Falls, 'Sun, Steel and Spray - A History of the Victoria Falls Bridge' (first published 2011) and 'Corridors Through Time - A History of the Victoria Falls Hotel' (first published 2015), providing extensive background material and additional information to the story of the human history of the Victoria Falls.
Fully illustrated with over 100 archive images and illustrations. [Revised Second Edition, 262 pages, 84,400 words]