Zambezi Book Company - Specialists in the natural and human history of The Victoria Falls

Zambezi Book Company

Discover the history of The Victoria Falls




Welcome to the Zambezi Book Company. We are online publishers specialising in the natural and human history of the Victoria Falls and Zambezi River. We publish our titles in partnership with Amazon CreateSpace online publishing, making our books available in print to order online through Amazon.



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A Railway Engineer in Rhodesia

Charles Murray Ingledew’s Photograph Albums (1901-1908)

This small publication results from the rediscovery of three long-forgotten photograph albums relating to railway construction in the early days of the Rhodesia Railway network, in what is now Zimbabwe. The photographs document the early career of Charles Murray Ingledew, an engineer who worked on various railway construction contracts for Pauling and Company in southern Africa and the beginning of over thirty years of railway construction work in Africa. Photographs are presented with supporting notes and show construction on the Salisbury to Ayrshire line (1902), Gwelo to Selukwe and Bulawayo to Gwanda lines (1903) and Deka Bridge (1908) as well as including a set of 20 professional photographs of Cecil Rhodes funeral (by Samuel Turner) and 6 view of the Victoria Falls (by William Rausch), among others.

Featuring over 150 archive photographs, many previously unpublished. [First Edition published January 2023, 140 pages, over 12,500 words].


A Railway Engineer in Rhodesia - Charles Murray Ingledew

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African Odyssey

The Development of the Drewry Railcar (1902-1908)

This small publication results from the rediscovery of several long-forgotten references to motorised railcars operating in the early days of the Rhodesia Railway network, in what is now Zimbabwe. Our story follows what we believe to be the independent development of the some of the earliest commercially produced motorised railcars, designed and tested in Africa by James Sidney Drewry during 1903 and utilised by Pauling and Company, construction contractors for the Rhodesian railway network. Further railcar designs of increasing size and horse-power followed, leading to the formation of the Drewry Car Company in England in 1906, for many decades specialists in the custom production of a range of motorised rail inspection cars for railway systems across the world. Fully illustrated with a wealth of archive images and illustrations [First Edition published November 2021, 68 pages, over 16,500 words].


African Odyssey - The Development of the Drewry Railcar (1902-1908)

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To The Banks of the Zambezi and Beyond - Railway Construction from the Cape to the Congo


Life and Death at the Old Drift, Victoria Falls 1898-1905     Sun, Steel and Spray - A History of the Victoria Falls Bridge


Footsteps Through Time - A History of Travela and Tourism to the Victoria Falls     Corridors Through Time - A History of the Victoria Falls Hotel

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