Browsing by subject : Exhibits from the Collection of Ken Habeeb
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Various Africa Maps from the collection of Ken Habeeb
5/28/2023 Ken Habeeb: "Some years back while I was reading about slavery, I ran across the phrase White Man's Grave. In trying to reconcile that with slavery, I saw that maps showed the vast African Interior as being "unknown." That sent me down a path to find out why...The amazing exploration stories followed. Then I was hooked....Africa was the last continent to be explored by anybody - by a lot, and Central Africa, in particular wasn't penetrated by Europeans until the late 19th century. The Spanish, English, and French had been inside the Americas already for four hundred years. Why? The African interior was dangerous because of disease, travel hardship, and inhospitable indigenous tribes. The continent had earned the name The White Man's Grave, and all business for centuries, including slavery was conducted only from forts and towns along the coastline. Today, African countries are determiing their own fate trading and realizing mineral and floral riches. For me, African maps, be they 15th century or later, graphically record the amazing exploration stories of the continent." Ken Habeeb @kenhabeeb 5/28/2023keywords: khabeeb, printsforsale
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Arrowsmith Atlas of 1812
This exhibit was put together by Ken Habeeb and Tom Paper when Ken had a map whose origin he did not know. Ken presented about his map, the one Tom Paper found at Rumsey, which is the Arrowsmith map, as well as the 1804 Wilkinson map, also from Rumsey, that has far more information on it. Ken spoke about both of these maps in his presentation on February 5, 2022 to the Bay Area Map Group.Rumseykeywords: khabeeb
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Various Maps from the Collection of Ken Habeeb
Various maps from the collection of Ken Habeeb. Does not include maps of Africa and China, which can be found here and here.keywords: khabeeb
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Eight Interesting Aspects - The Last Continent Explored: Slavery, Commodities, and Peril - Ken Habeeb
Kenneth Habeeb is a writer and map collector who has contributed pieces for Calafia, the journal of the California Map Society. His collecting interests include maps of Africa and, more recently, of China during the Opium Wars.Today, he presents "Africa, According to Mr. D'Anville," an extraordinary and at times bizarre snapshot of European beliefs about Africa in the decades before widespread European conquest on the continent.Created and presented by Ken Habeeb.Adapted and edited by Andrew Gu, Pixeum Intern for Summer 2024.keywords: khabeeb
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