SALISBURY'S CHANGING SKYLINE 1890-1990. ALEX D JACK IN SOUTH AFRICA

Bulawayo BOOKS OF ZIMBABWE, 1981. Large hard cover with dust cover. 113 pages. Very good condition. The dust cover has minor edgewear. Over  1kg. This is a unique presentation, in a handsome large coffee-table volume of Salisbury's (now Harare) architecture and street scenes from it's beginnings to 1980 - the story of its growth told through its buildings and the people associated with them. It is a fascinating record of a city of pioneering character and robust individuality.  The book contains more than 114 subjects illustrated in various media - pencil & watercolour sketches and full colour and two aerial photographs plus fold out map. Also includes informative text and anecdotes that set the sketches in their historical perspective and adds background that makes them more meaningful.