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''Walkabout'' was an Australian illustrated magazine published from 1934 to 1974 combining cultural, geographic, and scientific content with travel literature.〔"NEW TRAVEL MAGAZINE." "Walkabout", a new monthly travel magazine, which will present the story of Australia beyond the cities, the South Sea Islands, and New Zealand, is being produced by the Australian National Travel Association, an organisation established five years ago, with the support of Governments and private enterprise, to make Australia's attractions known throughout the world. Containing 68 pages, the various issues of ''Walkabout'' will contain colourful articles by well-known writers. Pictures will be a feature of the new publication. In an explanatory note the publishers state:-"The title adopted for the magazine has an 'age-old' background and signifies a racial characteristic of the Australian aboriginal, who is always on the move. And so,month by month, ''Walkabout'' will take its readers on a great 'walkabout' through the fascinating world below the equator." 〕 Initially a travel magazine, in its forty-year run it featured a popular 〔"It was immediately successful, with its initial print run of 20,000 copies increasing to 22,000 within three months, and reaching 30,000 by 1949. Ross, Glen. The fantastic face of the continent: the Australian Geographical Walkabout magazine. ''Southern Review'' (Adelaide), v.32, no.1, 1999: 27-41.〕 mix of articles by travellers, officials, residents, journalists, and visiting novelists, illustrated by Australian photojournalists. Its title derived from the supposed ‘racial characteristic of the Australian aboriginal who is always on the move’(). == History == Ostensibly and initially a travel magazine, ''Walkabout'' was published by the Australian National Travel Association (ANTA, formed in 1929).〔Ross, Glen. The fantastic face of the continent: the Australian Geographical Walkabout magazine. ''Southern Review'' (Adelaide), v.32, no.1, 1999: 27-41.〕 The income they derived from its sale provided for the Association's other activities in promoting tourism, 'to place Australia on the world's travel map and keep it there.'〔http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/sun/anta.html〕 It was assertively Australian, aiming to help 'Australians and the people of other lands () learn more of the vast Australian continent and its nearby islands,' and came to resemble the popular magazines that were to appear after World War II, and like the United States' ''National Geographic Magazine''. From August 1946, ''Walkabout'' also doubled as the official journal of the newly formed Australian Geographical Society (AGS), founded with a five thousand pound grant from ANTA, its banner subscript reading 'Journal of the Australian Geographical Society'. This role is now filled by Australian Geographic magazine. Later it became ‘Australia's Way of Life Magazine’ when supported by the Australian National Publicity Association and later the Australian National Travel Association. Modern dynamic layouts and more lively captioning under the editorship (1960-1968) of Brian McArdle (1920-1968) saw a brief increase in circulation due to more liberal, human-interest and cultural content, emulating the American ''Life'' magazine (1936-1972) and the French ''Réalités'' (1946-1979). In accounting for its demise, Max Quanchi writes '...it finally struggled against mass circulation weekly and lifestyle magazines in the early 1970s...'. In fact, ''Walkabout'' outlived ''Life'' by two years, which also succumbed to increasing publication costs, decreasing subscriptions, and to competition from other media and newspaper supplements. In the 1960s the magazine spawned a number of book-length illustrated anthologies〔A. T. Bolton, editor (1968) ''Walkabout's Australia : an anthology of articles and photographs from Walkabout magazine''. Sydney : Ure Smith in association with the Australian National Travel Association, – Walkabout pocketbooks〕〔Farwell, G., Brian McArdle () (1968) ''Around Australia on Highway One''. Melbourne, Vic. : Thomas Nelson (Australia)〕〔Tennison, P., McArdle, J.B. (196?) ''Walkabout presents the Australian scene''. Melbourne: Walkabout.〕〔McArdle, B. & Fenton, P. (1968) ''Australian Walkabout''. Melbourne : Lansdowne Press.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walkabout (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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