The Armchair Traveler Plugs In: Multimedia Cartography as a Visual Supplement to Travel Writing

Authors

  • Shannon des Roches Syracuse University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14714/CP19.910

Keywords:

multimedia, narrative, cartography

Abstract

Travel writings, such as Stuart Stevens's West African adventure, Malaria Dreams, provide readers with interesting and entertaining stories. However, because they seldom give adequate treatment to the geographic, historic, cultural, and political issues, they leave the reader with an incomplete impression of the landscape. The accounts of these journeys can benefit from an interactive "visual supplement" that contains animations, maps, photos, drawings, graphs, and sounds. A visual supplement can complement the text and augment a reader's overall experience. This paper presents some issues pertinent to creating effective visual supplements and includes examples from a prototype for Malaria Dreams.

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Published

1994-09-01

How to Cite

des Roches, S. (1994). The Armchair Traveler Plugs In: Multimedia Cartography as a Visual Supplement to Travel Writing. Cartographic Perspectives, (19), 20–25. https://doi.org/10.14714/CP19.910

Issue

No. 19 (1994)

Section

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