This fantastical, futuristic pictorial map by Sharon Schumacher presents a conjectural vision of Alaska's Cook Inlet in the year 2035. An astonished Captain Cook is depicted aboard the Resolution, returning to the region he first laid eyes on in 1778. Schumacher imagines the region transformed by time and technology, with the most obvious development being the Alaska Transport Tube, a climate-controlled, eight-lane enclosed expressway that connects all the cities. Other speculative developments include rocket ships at the Anchorage airport, a McDonald's on Mt. McKinley, tidal generators, new cities like Drift City and Tuxedni, and plenty of space age architecture. Alongside the more optimistic changes, there are also troubling signs: the Kenai refinery has exploded into a petrochemical empire; a note east of Homer states, "A heat wave in 2002 A.D. melted all glaciers;" and in Kenai, there is a moose exhibit with a single live moose, a hint of extinctions to come. The name "Willow" is crossed-out on the sign for Anchorage, a nod to the proposed new capital city that was rejected in 1978. A very novel and interesting map of the region. Schumacher created this map for the Alaska Geographic Society. She specialized in pictorial maps of the Pacific Northwest, including a more "realistic" map of the Cook Inlet, also published in 1983.

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Condition: A+

A colorful example on a bright sheet. Fine.