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Where To Stream Great Railway Journeys Season 1 Episode 5

Zambezi Express

Cape Town to the Victoria Falls - still the most romantic railway journey in Africa. MICHAEL WOOD, a young historian, follows the trail of the empire builder, Cecil Rhodes. His journey takes him through the great wilderness of the Karoo and the diamond fields of Kimberley to the gold city of Johannesburg and its sprawling offspring. Soweto. Leaving South Africa, Wood travels through Botswana around the edge of the Kalahari into a war, for, in December 1979, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia was still a...