Kenya

Exploration, colonial boundaries and safari routes all shape these maps of Kenya. Early regional sheets by Mallet and Vandermaelen precede maps of British East Africa, its railway and the later Kenyan state, while Royal Geographical Society material follows journeys towards Mount Kenya, Lake Baringo and the Rift Valley. Specialised sheets map rainfall, tsetse distribution and land use, and the coast has its own record in Mombasa plans and Admiralty charts of East African waters. Mid-twentieth-century safari maps connect Nairobi, the game reserves and the country around Kilimanjaro across the Tanzanian border. The prints show coastal scenes, travellers and local communities, captioned in the vocabulary of their period.