The Middle East'. A colour-printed double-page map from Fortune's wartime survey of Middle Eastern power politics, drawn by Richard Edes Harrison for Fortune Magazine. Unlike Harrison's more dramatic "Air Age" globular views, this is deliberately sober: a conventional regional map, with relief, communications, cultivation, desert and neutral frontiers used to explain the area as the essential hinge between Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. The accompanying argument is geopolitical rather than decorative: Britain's 1918 settlement, Axis ambitions, oil, Suez, Arabia, Iran and India all depend on command of this crossroads. A good, readable wartime Harrison, less theatrical than the famous orthographic maps but still very much a Fortune strategic map. Original folds, as issued; light handling. by Harrison, Richard Edes. Published November 1942. Vintage colour map. Size 35 x 57 cm | 14.0 x 22.5 inches. Condition: Good; suitable for framing. This map was originally printed as two separate pages which have been professionally joined to form a single sheet. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. There is text and/or images printed on the reverse side. Tags: 1942, Fortune Magazine, Harrison Richard Edes, Map, Middle East

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