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Quoted references are listed at end of each page. The following list comprises key references to the Victoria Falls and surrounding region.
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Agate W (1912) Diary of a tour in South Africa. Holness, London. Free download.
Arderne, (1904) The Arderne Party Chronicles. Cape Town. Free download.
Arnot, F S (1883) From Natal to the Upper Zambezi: First Year Among the Barotse. Mission, Glasgow.
Arnot F S (1889) Garenganze: or, Seven Years Pioneer Mission Work in Central Africa. Hawkins, London. Free download.
Arnot F S (1914) Missionary Travels in Central Africa. Holness, London. Free download.
Arrington, A. L. (2009) Competitive Labour: Divisions between Zambian and Zimbabwean Workers. African Studies, Vol.68 No.1. Available online.
Arrington, A. L. (2010) Competing for tourists at Victoria Falls: A historical consideration of the effects of government involvement. Development Southern Africa. Vol.27 No.5, December 2010. Available online.
Arrington-Sirois, A. L. (2017) Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa: Turning Water into Gold. Palgrave Macmillan. Available online.
Attenborough, D. (1965) Zambezi: A Journey. Episode 3: Livingstone’s River. British Broadcasting Corporation television film documentary.
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Baden Powell R S S (1897) Matabele campaign, 1896; being a narrative of the campaign in supressing the native rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland. Holness, London. Free download.
Baker E (1921) The Life & Explorations of Frederick Stanley Arnot. Seeley, Servive & Co. Free download.
Baines, Thomas (1862), The Victoria Falls, Zambezi River, sketched on the spot by Thomas Baines, FRGS, 1862 (reprint Bulawayo, Rhodesia: Books of Rhodesia, 1969).
Baines, Thomas (1864), Explorations in South-West Africa: Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. Longmans, Roberts and Green, London. Free download.
Baldwin W C (1863) African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi. Bentley, London.
Balfour, H. (1905) Diaries of Henry Balfour (1863-1939) South Africa 1905.
Balfour, H. (1929) Diaries of Henry Balfour (1863-1939) South and East Africa 1929.
Barnes, J.C. (1977). The Beira-Mashonaland railway. Rhodesiana, 5 (37), 3-5.
Beet. G. (1923) The Story of the Ox Wagon - The Story of a Famous Engineering Feat. [In Weinthal, L. (1923)]
Bertrand, A (1899) The Kingdom of the Barotse. T. Fisher Unwin, London. Free download
Bethell, A J (1887) Notes on South African Hunting and Notes on a Ride to Victoria Falls of the Zambesi. Sampson, York.
Blake, W. T. (1960) Rhodesia and Nyasaland Journey. Redman, London.
Bolze, L. W. (1968) The Railway comes to Bulawayo. Rhodesiana, No.18, July, p.47-84.
Bond G (1975) The Geology and Formation of the Victoria Falls. In: Phillipson D W [Ed] (1975).
Boon M (2007) Zambezi - The First Solo Journey down Africa’s Mighty River. Struik
Brelsford W V (1965) Generation of Men: The European Pioneers of Northern Rhodesia. Stuart Manning, Salisbury, Rhodesia, p 103.
Brendon, P (2008) The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997, Vintage, London
British South Africa Company (1905?) Guide to the Victoria Falls. London.
British South Africa Company (1907). Rhodesia, A Book for Tourists and
Sportsmen. BSAC. Free download
Bulpin, Thomas Victor (1965), To the banks of the Zambezi. Johannesburg, Nelson.
Burrett, R. and Mateke, C. (2018) Shongwe: The Rich Heritage of Livingstone and Victoria Falls. Khami Press, Bulawayo.
Burrett, R. and Murray, G. (2013) ‘Iron Spine and Ribs’ A brief history of the foundations of the railways of Zimbabwe and Zambia. Khami Press, Bulawayo.
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Cameron, C. (1913) A Woman’s Winter in Africa. Stanley Paul & Co, London. Free download
Carruthers , J (1995), The Life and Work of Thomas Baines. London: Longman, Green.
Chapman, James (1868), Travels in the Interior of South Africa, 2 vols., London [Reprint 1971 A A Balkema, Cape Town] Free download Part 1, Part 2.
Clark, J D [Editor] (1952) The Victoria Falls : A Handbook to the Victoria Falls, the Batoka Gorge, and part of the Upper Zambesi River Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments and Relics, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia.
Clark J D (1952) The Native Tribes in Clark J D [Ed] (1952).
Clark, J D (1975) Stone Age Man at the Victoria Falls. In: Phillipson D W [Ed] (1975).
Clark, P. M. (1906?) Souvenir of the Victoria Falls
Clark, P. M & Heath, A (c1910) Victoria Falls : An Album London, P G Hunt
Clark, P. M (1925) Guide to the Victoria Falls (Fifth Edition)
Clark, P. M. (1936) Autobiography of an Old Drifter. Harrap, London.
Clay C G R (1959) The Discovery of the Victoria Falls Northern Rhodesian Journal 4:18-21
Colliard F (1897) On the threshold of Africa - A Record of Twenty Years Pioneering among the Barotse of the Upper Zambezi. Hodder and Stoughton, London. Free download
Cooke C K (1975) The Zeederburg Coach, Rhodesianna, No 32, March pp 43-7.
Coupland, R (1928), Kirk on the Zambezi A Chapter of African History, Oxford
Cowen, W. W. (1995) A Central African Odyssey. Radcliffe Press.
Creewel, J. (2004) A history of the Victoria Falls Hotel - 100 years 1904-2004. [Edited and updated by Stan Higgins. Originally published in 1994 as ‘A history of the Victoria Falls Hotel - 90 Glorious Years 1904-1994.’]
Critchel, R (2007) A fireman in Africa. From 'The Great North Road'
Available Online.
Croxton, A. (1982) Railways of Zimbabwe [Originally published in 1973 as Railways of Rhodesia]
Curzon, Lord (1909) The Victoria Falls. From 'The Times,' 14 April 1909
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Decle L (1898) Three Years in Savage Africa London. Free download
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Economic Survey of Livingstone (1957) Rhodesia and Nyasaland Prime Minister’s Department.
Ese K (1996) A Historical Guide to Livingstone Town Directory Publishers, Bulawayo.
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Fagan, B M [Editor] (1964) The Victoria Falls : A Handbook to the Victoria Falls, the Batoka Gorge, and part of the Upper Zambesi River (Second Edition) Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments and Relics, Lusaka, Zambia
Fanshawe D B (1975) The Flora. In: Phillipson D W (Ed).
Foskett (ed.). (1965) The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr John Kirk Edinburgh and London
Fox, F. Sir. (1904) River, Road and Rail. John Murray, London.
Fox, Francis, Sir. (1924) Sixty-three years of engineering, scientific and social work. London, J. Murray. Free download.
Frew (1934) Prince George's African Tour Blackie & Sons.
Fuller, B. (1954) Bid Time Return. De Bussy, Holland.
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Gann L H (1958) Birth of a Plural Society - The Development of Northern Rhodesia under the British South Africa Company 1894-1914.
Gann, L. H. (1964) A History of Northern Rhodesia : Early Days to 1953. Chatto & Windus, London.
Gale, W. D. (1973) The Years Between 1923–1973: Half a Century of Responsible Government in Rhodesia. Salisbury.
Gibbons A St H (1897) Explorations and Hunting in Central Africa. Methun, London.
Gibbons A St H (1904) Africa from South to North. Through Marotseland. Lane, London. Free download Part 1, Part 2.
Glyn, R. (1863) A diary of ten months in South Africa. [Quoted by Clay, G in Fagan, B, M. [Editor] (1963)]
Goy, M. K. (1901) Alone in Africa. J Nisbet & Co, London. Free download
Gupta, A (2007) [editor] Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management John Wiley and Sons, England.
Green L G (1956) Legends of the Victoria Falls In: There's a Secret Hid Away 108-114 Howard Timmins, Cape Town.
Green, L. G. (1968) Full Many a Glorious Morning. Timmins.
Gregg, L. (1957) Memories of Olive Schreiner. W & R Chambers, London.
Grogan, E S and Sharp, A H (1900) From the Cape to Cairo London, Hurst and Blackett. Free download.
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Hamner, E, D (1983) Steam locomotives of Rhodesia Railways: The story of steam, 1892-1979 Frank Stenvalls Forlag
Harding C (1895) In Remotest Barotseland. Hurst, London. Free download.
Harris, D. (1969) Victoria Falls Souvenir Guide Book.
Heath R A (1977) Victoria Falls. The Growth of a Rhodesian Village Proceedings of the Geographical Association of Rhodesia 10:15-29
Heath, R. A. (1986) The national survey of outdoor recreation in Zimbabwe. Zambezia XII(1), 26-36.
Hobson, G A (1905) The Victoria Falls Bridge, The African World, Vol 3, 9 December, p107
Hobson, G (1907) The Victoria Falls Bridge. Institution of Civil Engineers, Session 1906-1907, Part IV, Section 1. Minutes of Proceedings 19 March, 1907 (Paper No 3675). Volume 170,January 1907, Pages 1–49. Available online Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
Hobson, G (1923) The Great Zambesi Bridge - The Story of a Famous Engineering Feat. [In Weinthal, L]
Holub, Emil (1881) Seven Years in South Africa. Travels, Researches and Hunting Adventures, Between the Diamond-Fields and the Zambesi, 1872-79 London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. Free download Part 1, Part 2.
Holub, E. (1890) Second Voyage to Southern Africa. From Cape Town to the Land of the Mashukulumbwe. Travels in Southern Africa in 1883-87.
Hoole, R. J. (undated) The First Photographs of Victoria Falls taken by Frank ‘Zambezi’ Watson.
Hutchinson, G D (1905) From the Cape to the Zambesi. J Murray, London. Free download.
Hyatt, S. P. (1914) The Old Transport Road. Andrew Melrose, London.
Hyder Consulting (2007) Footprints on a Global Landscape – 100 years of improving the built environment. Hyder Consulting. Available online.
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Indakwa J (1981) King Lewanika and the expansion of British rule in Barotseland 1890-1923 , manuscript in Livingstone Museum
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James, D. (1954) The Life of Lord Roberts. Hollis & Carter.
Jeal T (1993) Livingstone Pimlico, London.
Jeal, T. (2007) Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer. Yale.
Jones, D. (1997) 100 Years The Railway in Zimbabwe 1897-1997. Pangolin Press, Harare.
Johnson, Sir, H. (1923) My Story of the Cape to Cairo Scheme. [In Weinthal, L. [Editor] (1923), Vol.I]
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Keppel-Jones, A. (1983) Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902.
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Le Roux, Servaas (1939) Pioneers and Sportsmen of South Africa 1760-1890 Salisbury, S. Rhodesia, published by the author and printed by The Art Printing Works
Lawley, A. L. (1898) From Bulawayo to the Victoria Falls: A Mission to King Lewanika. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.164 December 1898, p.739-759, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh.
Livingstone, David (1857), Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean, London. Free download.
Livingstone, David & Livingstone, Charles (1865), Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 London. Free download.
Lyon, P. (1904) The Arderne Party Chronicles. Cape Town.
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McAdam (1965) Early Birds in Central Africa, Rhodesiana. Available online
McAdam (1969) Birth of an Airline, Rhodesiana. Available online
McGregor, JoAnn (2003) The Victoria Falls 1900-1940: Landscape, Tourism and the Geographical Imagination, Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 29, Number 3, September 2003 , pp. 717-737(21). Available online.
McGregor, JoAnn (2009) Crossing the Zambezi : The Politics of Landscape on an African Frontier. Oxford : James Currey & Harare : Weaver Press
Mackintosh C W (1907) Coillard of the Zambesi. Unwin, London. Free download.
Mackintosh C W (1922) The new Zambesi trail ; a record of two journeys to North-Western Rhodesia (1903 and 1920). Unwin, London. Free download.
Macmillan H (2005) An African Trading Empire - The Story of Susman Borthers and Wulfsohn, 1901-2005. I B Tauris & Co Ltd, London.
Marshall Hole H (1936) Pioneer Days in Southern Rhodesia. Journal of the Royal African Society. Vol 35, No 138. (Jan, 1936), pp37-47. Oxford University Press. Available online.
Martin, D. (1997) Victoria Falls: Mosi-oa-Tunya African Publishing Group, Harare.
Main, M (1990) Zambezi – Journey of a River, Southern Book Publishers, South Africa.
Meadows, K. (2000) Sometimes when it rains: white Africans in black Africa. Thorntree Press.
Metcalfe, C. Sir, and Richarde-Seaver, F. I. (1889) The British Sphere of Influence in South Africa. Fortnightly Review, p.267. London.
Metcalfe, C. (1904) Cape to Cairo Railway. Dawson Daily News, 29 September
1904. Available online.
Metcalfe, Charles, Sir (1916) Railway Development of Africa, Present and Future, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan 1916), pp. 3-17. Available online.
Michler I (2007) Victoria Falls and Surrounds. Struik, South Africa.
Moffat R (1842)