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

Zambezi Book Company

About the Author




Zambezi Book Company author, Peter Roberts is a specialist researcher and writer on the natural and human history of the Victoria Falls. Born in Wales and an ecologist by training, Peter has become drawn to the landscapes, wildlife and human history of Africa and the magic, especially, of the Falls and its surrounds.

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. This first edition (64 pages, 25,000 words) was only available to buy through selected outlets in Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) and Livingstone (Zambia) and is now out of print.

Sun, Steel and Spray - A History of the Victoria Falls Bridge


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.

Corridors Through Time - A history of the Victoria Falls Hotel

Revised second editions of both titles were published through Amazon in 2016, and followed by '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).

At the Falls

For more on the history of the Victoria Falls visit www.tothevictoriafalls.com.




                A Railway Engineer in Rhodesia - Charles Murray Ingledew   African Odyssey - The Development of the Drewry Railcar (1902-1908)   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




Explore the history of the Victoria Falls online - www.tothevictoriafalls.com

Explore the History of the Victoria Falls