ABSTRACT
The illustrated geographical travel magazine was a product of the nineteenth-century fascination with travel and information about the world. The origins of this periodical genre, however, have only recently begun to receive the scholarly attention they deserve. This chapter traces both the transnational character and uniquely national variations of the geographical travel magazine in the rise of the French magazine Le Tour du Monde (1860–1914), its German counterpart Globus (1862–1910) and the British serial publication All Round the World (1861–1877). Although these works were intended for general readers, they relied on information and experts from the nascent professional institutions dedicated to exploration, geography and ethnography. All three were founded by men well versed in the business of serial publications and connected to the burgeoning field of geography. Most importantly, however, the new medium of the popular travel magazine was tied to the rapidly increasing availability of images from across that world. It was that visual component that connected them and reveals the fascinating mixture of global curiosity, transnational influence and national interests that underlay them.
