BIOD #134 - Australia Land of Living Fossils

digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343389

Title:
Australia Land of Living Fossils
Alternate Title:
Australia Land of Living Fossils
Collection:
Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
Creator:
Anderson, Roy
Other Creators:
National Geographic Society
Date:
1979
Posted Date:
2017-04-14
ID Number:
2048.01
Notes:
This National Geographic publication has been extensively analyzed by Wood & Fels (2008, ch. 3). It features a bold, colorful poster of Australian wildlife on one side, along with a stripped-down map that "comes off as little more than an excuse for the animal portraiture." Ibid. 37. On the verso is a classic, detailed, "cooly dispassionate" geographic map. Ibid. 42. As Wood points out, this is similar to many state highway maps, which mix straightforward geography with heavily promotional "points of interest." See, e.g., ID #1274, "Motoring on Long Island;" ID #2131, "Indiana."

The text on the poster discusses the unique evolution of geographically remote species and makes passing mention of preservation issues. In the view of Wood and Fels, however, it is excessively focused on the curious, cute and superficial: the "topsy-turvy" nature of the Australian "menagerie," the "living museum of odd species." Ibid. 41. They see the map as an indictment of National Geographic: a "badge" of a subscriber's "progressiveness", "a middlebrow fetish" and "nothing but a set of instructions about how" the subscriber should "think about oneself: with satisfaction." Ibid. 46.

For a similar map of Africa, see ID #2172, "Pictorial Map of Africa."

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Cite As:
P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Archival Collection:
P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography

Taken on: September 14, 2016

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