Friday, 4 October 2013

A rice farmer with his son in Lambwe Chomba, Zambia

The first attempt to photograph Mosi-oa-Tunya was by hunter, trader and photographer James Chapman, on an 1859-63 expedition with Thomas Baines, after the latter had been dismissed from Livingstone’s expedition (Ryan, 42). This attempt failed. ~ Peter Langmead in Postcards from Zambia

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