Botswana - by Sandy Grant (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This paperback edition of one man's record, in photographs, of a time of dramatic change in the history of a country contains the same 346 photographs as the colour hardback, but in black-and-white only.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Botswana's rapid transition between 1965 and 2016 from one of the poorest countries in the world to one rated as middle income has been extraordinary. Fifty years of change has seen the widespread disappearance of coal-fired locomotives and popularly used passenger trains, and ox drawn wagons. Blacksmiths, paraffin lamps, rondavels and thatched buildings, lime, women carrying buckets of water, metal water tanks have gone. The list goes on: the displacement of the round by the rectangular, migrant labour, hand cranked telephones and party lines, older men in army great coats, school children with bare feet, guttering and down pipes, granaries, the decoration of the lelapa, indigenous foodstuffs, the sub-language fanagalo, the crafts made for domestic needs. Yet more: changes in clothing, housing, property and vehicle ownership, means of entertainment, untarred main roads, do it yourself housing and in many places, general stores. The majority of the photos selected are of people. This is deliberate. It means that this book has no photographs that are routinely included in other books - the country's marvellous wilderness and wildlife, the Okavango and the Kgalagadi, the sand dunes and places of great natural beauty. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'This is the kind of book I had long been looking for -a book that really shows the daily life of Batswana as it was in the time from Independence up into the 20th century. All of the photographs are in black and white [in the paperback edition], but they are well chosen, high quality pictures. Most were taken in the early part of the stated time range, and the book formats one photo per page with explanatory captions. Sandy Grant lived for a long time in the Mochudi area, so there are a hundred pages of pictures of Mochudi and its culture. There are also 200 other pages with photos sampled from many other rural villages as well as the larger villages and town. I'm happy to recommend this collection'. <em>Review from barnesandnoble.com</em>.</p><br>
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