Nairobi, the geography of a new city

the long version

Ronald Wesley Walmsley, M.A. (Oxford), Dip. Ed. (London), Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society This book was the first text book written about the Nairobi area. It may indeed have been the first in East Africa. Mr. Walmsley went to Kenya in 1948 to teach secondary school, his speciality being geography. He was particularly interested in the demographic aspect of geography and had the opportunity to study the Nairobi through a phase of very rapid development into a modern city. For a generation or two of Kenyans, this was the geography book they had at school. It is a valuable historical document and also serves to illustrate the kinds of relationships and issues that develop as a city grows from almost nothing in a short time. The maps are meticulously drawn and the style is clear and concise.