ABSTRACT
189In this chapter, various illustrated publications and visual media that popularized geographical information are analysed. Geographical discourse aims foremost to educate about other countries and is rather educative in tone; as the analysis shows, it was a mix of natural and political geography, personal impressions of travel, visually exciting views, historical anecdotes, and descriptions of economic activities. In contrast to anthropological discourse (Chapter 4) and tourist discourse (Chapter 6), modern and urban aspects are mentioned. Through medium and patterns, the idea of access to the world through word and image is very present. The analysis concludes that the term “Dutch” in popular geographical discourse generally is not used to refer to the typical and the authentic. When generalizations are made in geographical discourse, they tend to take the form of the prototype.
