{"product_id":"south-america-and-africa-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006747","title":"South America and Africa—Persuasive map—World War 2—Richard Edes Harrison 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'South America and Africa'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis atlas version of an earlier Harrison map included in Fortune’s 1940 Atlas for the U.S. Citizen uses paired globular views to puncture the tempting idea that Brazil and West Africa form a natural wartime bridge. Harrison argues that, unless better routes are blocked, South America and Africa “lead only to each other”: their bulges look close, but distance, routes and strategic purpose say otherwise. Ascension may link them, yet Dakar lies off the main great-circle routes and, without British control of the Mediterranean, Africa becomes an obstacle to be sailed around or flown over. Reissued in June 1944, the map teaches that strategy depends not on visual proximity, but on communications, bases and chokepoints.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934517948763,"sku":"P-8-006747","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-006747a.jpg?v=1778179196","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/products\/south-america-and-africa-persuasive-map-world-war-2-richard-edes-harrison-1944-p-8-006747","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}