To The Victoria Falls

A History of the Victoria Falls

To The Victoria Falls

The Victoria Falls

Welcome To the Victoria Falls. This website aims to bring you the wonder of the Victoria Falls through a look at its natural and human history and the development of travel and tourism to this global icon.

We take you through the history of the Victoria Falls, introducing the Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River, the formation of the Victoria Falls, the people of the Victoria Falls and their traditional culture, and the discovery of the Victoria Falls by David Livingstone and the explorers, traders and missionaries that followed in Livingstone's footsteps.

The main sections of this site focus on the development of the railway to the Victoria Falls, the building of the Victoria Falls Bridge, the Victoria Falls Hotel and development of tourism to the Victoria Falls.

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The text of many sections of this site is abridged from a series of books on the history of the Victoria Falls, researched and written by Peter Roberts and published on Amazon through the Zambezi Book Company. Please note this text is used here with full permission of the author.

Peter's first book, Sun, Steel & Spray - A History of the Victoria Falls Bridge was first published in 2011 in Zimbabwe by the Victoria Falls Bridge Company. A special first edition of Peter's second book, Corridors Through Time - A History of the Victoria Falls Hotel, was published in Zimbabwe by the Jafuta Foundation in 2015.

Further titles have followed - 'Footsteps Through Time - A History of Travel and Tourism to the Victoria Falls', first published in 2017, 'Life and Death at the Old Drift, Victoria Falls (1898-1905)', first published in 2018, and most recently 'To The Banks of the Zambezi and Beyond - Railway Construction from the Cape to the Congo (1893-1910),' published in 2021 (along with revised and updated editions of all four previous titles).

Looking for latest tourism news for Victoria Falls? Check our companion blog Victoria Falls Bits and Blogs for tourism, conservation and community news from the region.

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A History of the Victoria Falls

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This Website has been developed using historical information researched from a wide variety of sources, including books, magazines and websites etc too numerous to mention or credit individually, although key publications are listed on our References page. We warmly welcome any information, references or photographic donations to this website.

Website text © Copyright Peter Roberts 2012, All Rights Reserved.

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