The History and Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town

by Abdul Sheriff

Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its most acute forms. Should it be fossilized for the tourists? Or should it grow for the benefit of the inhabitants? Can ways be found to accommodate conflicting social and economic pressures?

For its size, Zanzibar, like Venice, occupies a remarkably large romantic space in world imagination. Swahili civilization on these spice islands goes back to the earliest centuries of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821411209
• ISBN13: 9780821411209
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 8.4"