Visual approaches? All in "Handling the Big Jets" by D. P. Davies.
As a young (rather naive) Second Officer with BOAC on the B707, I recall doing a (night) visual approach to (I think) Kuwait in the mid 1970s.
I always packed D.P. Davies book in my case as it was good reading on layovers.
The approach had no electronic glideslope or VASIs (too early for PAPIS) but I measured that we would be crossing the coastline at 5 miles out from the runway (it was a clear night). I therefore planned (and achieved) crossing the coastline (clearly visual and also on radar) at 1,500 ft in the landing configuration and flew 700 ft/min to a successful landing with a stable approach. All executed by hand flying and no FMC/EFIS autopilot or autothrottle.
Something is seriously wrong with the system if pilots cannot hand fly a visual approach.