Cabora Bassa Engineering and Politics in Southern Africa - Keith Middlemas

Hardback with Protected clipped DJ. Weidenfeld and Nicolson  First edition 1975. 367 pages. with maps and eight pages of illustrations

Slight yellowing of pages as one would expect but generally in pretty good condition for its age with no inscriptions. (see pics below). Please feel free to ask questions.

"......The story of Cabora Bassa is not only that of the intricate patterns which have now permanently altered the geography of politics in Southern Africa. Based on a remarkable range of sources, Dr Middlemas describes how the vision of the planners became an engineering reality, despite extreme hazards of work in the Zambezi gorge, the inhospitable climate, remoteness and the threat of guerilla sabotage. He traces the bitter in-fighting between rival engineering groups, the dominance of multinational corporations, and the physical struggle to raise the dam wall against a demanding time schedule and unpredictable floods.

Finally, in this outstanding essay in contemporary history, Dr. Middlemas shows how, long before the Portuguese revolution of 1974, Cabora Bassa involved the strategic clashes not only of black and white nations in southern Africa but of Russia, China, the United States and NATO countries in the Indian and Atlantic oceans, and how the fall of the Portuguese empire left a vacuum as yet unfilled by the independence of its component elements."

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