| National
Geographic - December 1979, Vol. 156, No. 6 |
Our
Wildest Wilderness (Arctic National Wildlife Range of far northeast
Alaska, an animal paradise amid solitude and natural beauty: The Range is
the largest component of the ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE)
Seoul: Korean Showcase
Oregon’s Lovely Lonely Coast
The Magic World of Hans Christian Andersen (An extraordinary Dane speaks
forever to children and adults alike through fairy tales of darkness and
light. Harvey Arden and Danish photographer Sisse Brimberg tell
Andersen’s own story.)
Graveyard of the Quicksilver Galleons (Two mercury-laden ships (Spain’s
galleons Guadalupe, and Tolosa) that perished in a West Indies hurricane
(off the Dominican Republic) in 1724 yield a treasure of new knowledge of
Spanish colonial days. By marine historian Mendel Peterson and
photographer Jonathan Blair.)
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| National
Geographic - November 1979, Vol. 156, No. 5 |
The
Desert: An Age-old Challenge Grows (It covers a third of earth’s land,
bringing hardship and suffering to a sixth of all people, and it is
spreading. Rick Gore and photographer Georg Gerster report on a
globe-circling survey.)
Winged Victory of Gossamer Albatross (Its pilot, Bryan Allen, tells of his
dramatic pedal-powered flight across the English Channel, a milestone in
aviation history.)
Which Way Oahu? (Hawaii)
Incredible World of the Deep-sea Rifts (Marine geologist Robert D. Ballard
and biologist J. Frederick Grassie describe mineral-spewing chimneys and
newly discovered creatures living in warm-water oases around ocean-floor
vents.)
Hong Kong’s Refugee Dilemma (The jam-packed British crown colony must
now cope with last summer’s flood of Asia’s homeless: boat people from
Vietnam as well as those fleeing from neighboring China. William S. Ellis
and William Albert Allard document the human side of the situation.)
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| National
Geographic - October 1979, Vol. 156, No. 4 |
Double Map
Supplement: British Isles and Medieval England
Pilgrimage Through Two England's (Britain and medieval England)
Along the Great Divide (Continental Divide from Mexico to Canada, our
newest national scenic trail)
Fiber Optics: Harnessing Light by a Thread
Scenic Guilin Links China’s Past and Present
The Rewards of Walrus-watching (Chukchi Sea)
Skylab’s Fiery End (July 12, 1979)
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| BRITAIN;
MEDIEVAL ENGLAND; CONTINENTAL DIVIDE NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL; FIBER OPTICS;
GUILIN, CHINA; CHUKCHI SEA WALRUS; and, SKYLAB’S FIERY END. |
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| National
Geographic - September 1979, Vol. 156, No. 3 |
Bahrain:
Hub of the Persian Gulf
The Search for The First Americans (Archaeologists call them Clovis
people, after a cluster of bone-strewn mammoth kill sites and camps
discovered in the 1930s near Clovis, New Mexico. Who led the way across
the Ice Age land bridge from Asia to the Americas, and when? Hunters of
early man are uncovering the trail, writes Thomas Y. Canby; photographs by
Kerby Smith, paintings by Roy Andersen.)
Oshkosh (Wisconsin): America’s Biggest Air Show
Louisiana’s Atchafalaya (swampland): Trouble in Bayou Country
St. Vincent, The Grenadines, and Grenada (windward West Indies): Taking It
as It Comes
Mosquitoes, the Mighty Killers
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PEOPLE; OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN AIR SHOW; LOUISIANA’S ATCHAFALAYA; ST.
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| National
Geographic - August 1979, Vol. 156, No. 2 |
Double
Supplement: The Americas and Bird Migration in the Americas
Mysteries of Bird Migration
Walk Across America: Part II (see part one of Peter Jenkins’s Walk
Across America in the April 1977 National Geographic.)
The Yellow Sea Yields a Shipwreck Trove: A 14th-Century Cargo Makes Port
at Last (discovered in 1975, off Sinan, a district on the southwestern
coast of the South Korea)
North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic): Middle East Flash Point
The Hard Life of the Prairie Dog
Inadan: Artisans of the Sahara (Niger’s master craftsmen live side by
side with their Tuareg overlords in a mutually beneficial caste system.)
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| BIRD
MIGRATION; WALK ACROSS AMERICA PART II; YELLOW SEA TREASURE, SOUTH KOREA;
NORTH YEMEN; PRAIRIE DOGS; and, NIGER’S INADAN ARTISANS. |
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| National
Geographic - July 1979, Vol. 156, No. 1 |
A Special
Issue Devoted to The Best of the Land
Our National Parks: Parks Grandeur in Pictures
A Long History of New Beginnings
Will Success Spoil Our Parks?
Sharing Alaska, How Much for Parks?: Who should control which wild lands
in Alaska and for what purposes? The long debate continues.
New Mount McKinley Challenge: Trekking Around the Continent’s Highest
Peak
A Navajo Views His People and Past (Navajo National Monument, Arizona)
Gateway, Elbowroom for Millions (Gateway National Recreation Area, New
York Harbor, New York-New Jersey)
Golden Gate: Of City, Ships, and Surf (Golden Gate National Recreation
Area, California)
Echoes of Shiloh (Civil War: Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee)
A Concise Guide to National Parks: Natural grandeur and living history:
what to see, where to camp, hike, fish, relax at 320 sites
Spring Comes Late to Glacier (Glacier National Park, Montana)
Guadalupe’s Trails in Summer (Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas,
with El Capitan, one of the world’s largest exposed fossil reefs)
Autumn, Season of the Smokies (Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
Tennessee-North Carolina)
Grand Teton, A Winter’s Tale (Grand Teton National Park,
Wyoming-Idaho-Montana)
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| National
Geographic - June 1979, Vol. 155, No. 6 |
First Look
at a Lost Virginia Settlement: At Wolstenholme Towne, archaeologists find
fragments of 17th-century colonists’ dreams, shattered by hardship and
massacre (Martin’s Hundred settlement)
An American 4-H Adventure: Down on the Farm, Soviet Style
A Clinical Look at Burma’s Long-Necked Women
The Two Worlds of Michigan (From the assembly lines of Motor City to the
hushed forests of the Upper Peninsula, the lake-girt state offers a marked
contrast in life-styles.)
Tahiti and Beyond: Society Islands, Sisters of the Wind (French Polynesian
archipelago in the South Seas)
Those Marvelous, Myriad Diatoms
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| National
Geographic - May 1979, Vol. 155, No. 5 |
Close-Up:
Canada: Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northwest Territories
Life and Death at Gombe: Violence never seen before erupts among
Africa’s chimpanzees in the continuing chronicle of their behavior, by
primate specialist Jane Goodall
Americans Climb K2: Second to Mount Everest in height, but not in
treachery, the Savage Mountain had been scaled but twice. Four decades had
seen five U.S. expeditions fail. In 1978 Jim Whittaker returned to lead a
team determined to reach the top. (in Asia’s remote Karakoram Range on
the frontier of Pakistan and China)
Americans Climb K2: On to the Summit
The People Who Made Saskatchewan (Canada)
Teamwork Helps the Whooping Crane (U.S. and Canadian biologist raise the
stately whooping crane’s chances of survival by putting its eggs into
sandhill crane nests for hatching.)
Napa (California), Valley of the Vine
Precious Corals: Hawaii’s Deep-sea jewels
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with JANE GOODALL; AMERICANS CLIMB K2; SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA; WHOOPING
CRANE; NAPA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA; and, HAWAII CORALS. |
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| National
Geographic - April 1979, Vol. 155, No. 4 |
3.6
Million Years Old: Footprints Frozen in Time, by Mary D. Leakey (at
Laetoli, near Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge. (…a startling discovery in
East Africa, tracks left in hardened volcanic ash by hominids that walked
upright at least 3.6 million years ago.)
The Promise and Peril of Nuclear Energy
Warm Springs Indians Carve Out a Future (Oregon reservation poverty into
prosperity)
The Trouble with Dolphins
Killer Whale Attack! (An unprecedented series of photographs documents a
savage, wolflike assault on a blue whale by a pack of the largest
dolphins, killer whales.)
Old Prague (Czechoslovakia) in Winter
Massachusetts’ North Shore: Harboring Old Ways
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LAETOLI, TANZANIA; NUCLEAR ENERGY; WARM SPRINGS INDIANS, OREGON; DOLPHINS;
KILLER WHALES; PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA; and, MASSACHUSETTS’ NORTH SHORE. |
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| National
Geographic - March 1979, Vol. 155, No. 3 |
Special
Tear-Out Guide: Wildlife Refuges of the United States
Triumph and Tragedy on Annapurna (Nepal): Ten women challenge earth’s
tenth highest mountain (An American women’s team conquers the world’s
tenth tallest mountain. Then a fall takes the lives of two. Arlene Blum,
Irene Miller, and Vera Komarkova related their history-making Himalayan
climb.)
Belgium: One Nation Divisible
Our National Wildlife Refuges: A Chance to Grow
Island, Prairie, Marsh, and Shore (Four distinctly different wildlife
refuges show their wonders to naturalist Charlton Ogburn and photographer
Bates Littlehales. A special tear-out guide details many of the 390
preserves.)
Denver, Colorado’s Rocky Mountain High
Nigeria Struggles with Boom Times (After 19 years of independence, a key
African nation strives to build a strong democracy and to use its bonanza
oil wealth to raise the standard of living of peoples long subjected to
colonialism, corruption, and civil strife.)
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| National
Geographic - February 1979, Vol. 155, No. 2 |
Double
Supplement: Australia and Its Living Fossils
The Tragic Journey of Burke and Wills (Seeking the unknown in 1860, the
first men to cross Australia struggled through a vast wasteland to its
northern edge, only to die during their return.
Kangaroos! That Marvelous Mob
Sydney: Big Breezy and a Bloomin’ Good Show
Risk and Reward on Alaska’s Violent Gulf (Gulf of Alaska)
Kathmandu’s Remarkable Newars (The rich and sophisticated culture of
Nepal’s capital is largely the product of a talented, enterprising
people little known to the outside world.)
Rotifers: Nature’s Whirling Water Purifiers (tiny aquatic animals)
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| National
Geographic - January 1979, Vol. 155, No. 1 |
Special Sound Sheet: Songs
of the Humpback Whale
Humpback Whales: I. The Gentle Giants (off Hawaii and Alaska)
Humpback Whales: II. Their Mysterious Songs (A 12-year study by zoologist
Roger Payne and his wife of the complex, ever changing sounds made by
humpbacks suggests that the songs may relate to social behavior and
possibly even intelligence. An accompanying sound sheet reproduces some of
these haunting sequences, as yet unfathomed.)
Los Angeles (California): City in Search of Itself
Man in the Amazon (Brazil): Stone Age Present Meets Stone Age Past
(Primitive Amazonian Indians help unearth a shelter where their forebears
may have worshiped the sun at least 9.000 years ago. W. Jesco von
Puttkamer documents one of the oldest human sites yet found in South
America)
The Incredible World of Diamonds
Bison Kill by Ice Age Hunters (Bones and spearpoints found in Colorado
reveal how Paleo-Indians slaughtered huge buffalo by the hundreds.)
Time of Testing For an Ancient Land: Sri Lanka |
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| National
Geographic - December 1978, Vol. 154, No. 6 |
Map
Supplement: Close-Up: Canada.: Ontario
EBLA: Splendor of an Unknown Empire (Excavators in northwestern Syria
unearth a great city called Ebla, seat of a realm that rivaled the
mightiest early civilizations.
Ontario: Canada’s Keystone
Smallpox: Epitaph for a Killer? (The only live smallpox virus left now is
held in laboratories.)
Tigris Sails Into the Past (In a ship of reeds based on craft of 5,000
years ago, explorer Thor Heyerdahl follows the wake of forgotten Sumerian
mariners. Carlo Mauri and other crewmen photograph the voyage.)
Winterkeeping in Yellowstone
Double Eagle II Has Landed (Three American balloonists’ own account of
their historic six-day flight across the Atlantic.)
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| National
Geographic - November 1978, Vol. 154, No. 5 |
Pilgrimage
to Mecca
Northwest Oasis: Washington’s Bountiful Yakima Valley
Natural Gas: The Search Goes On
Where the River Shannon Flows (Ireland)
The National Gallery’s New Masterwork on the Mall
Treasures of Dresden (East Germany)
Flashlight Fish of the Red Sea (goldfish-size, bioluminescent
Photoblepharon feed at night along Red Sea reefs.)
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YAKIMA VALLEY, WASHINGTON; NATURAL GAS; NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART; DRESDEN,
EAST GERMANY; RED SEA FISH. |
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| National
Geographic - October 1978, Vol. 154, No. 4 |
Conversations
with a Gorilla (Primate researcher Francine Patterson describes the
breakthrough with Koko.)
Dream On, Vancouver (Canada)
Nebraska’s Sand Hills: Land of Long Sunsets
Djibouti, Tiny New Nation on Africa’s Horn
Travels with a Donkey, 100 Years Later (Carolyn Bennett Patterson and a
four-legged friend named Modestine retrace Robert Louis Stevenson’s walk
across the Cevennes region of France.)
The Sunken Treasure of St. Helena (After centuries on the bottom, a Dutch
East Indiaman yields up a precious cargo. Marine archeologist Robert
Stenuit tells of the discovery.) |
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| National
Geographic - September 1978, Vol. 154, No. 3 |
Double Map
Supplement: The Middle East and Its Early Civilizations
Solo to the Pole (A daring Japanese, Naomi Uemura, challenges the Arctic
to become the first to reach the top of the world alone.)
Syria: Amid the ruins of ancient empires a young nation tests a new
stability
Undersea Wonders of the Galapagos
Columbus: A Most Uncommon Town (Indiana)
The Joy of Pigs
New Mexico’s Mountains of Mystery (Sangre de Cristo Mountains)
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SOLO; SYRIA; GALAPAGOS; COLUMBUS, INDIANA; PIGS; and, SANGRE DE CRISTO
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| National
Geographic - August 1978, Vol. 154, No. 2 |
Startling
Finds Prompt… A New Look at Dinosaurs (They ruled the earth for 140
million years, then disappeared. Were some of them warm-blooded? Did some
evolve into birds? Paleontologist John H. Ostrom discusses new ideas about
those “terrible lizards,” brought back to life by artist Roy
Andersen.)
Aluminum, the Magic Metal
Georgia, Unlimited
New Zealand’s High Country (South Island)
Spitsbergen, Norway’s Arctic Hot Spot
Mountain Goats: Daring Guardians of the Heights
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| National
Geographic - July 1978, Vol. 154, No. 1 |
Double
Supplement: The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
The Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon: Are We Loving It to Death?
Voyager’s Historic View of Earth and Moon (En route to Jupiter, NASA’s
Voyager 1 pictures our world and moon as never before.)
Regal Treasures From a Macedonian Tomb (Is This the Tomb of Philip of
Macedon?)
Day of the Rice God: A Folk Festival in Rural Japan
Yesterday Lingers on Lake Erie’s Bass Islands (Ohio, U.S.A.)
Giants That Move the World’s Oil (Sailing with the Supertankers)
Superspill: Black Day for Brittany, France (March 16, 1978: Amoco’s
Cadis oil tanker spilled 69 million gallons of Arabian oil in into the
sea, more than double the amount spilled in the Torrey Canyon disaster 11
years earlier, almost to the day.)
Dazzling Corals of Palau (western Pacific Palau Islands)
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CANYON; VOYAGER 1 EARTH/MOON PHOTO; MACEDONIAN TOMB; JAPAN; OIL
SUPERTANKERS; AMOCO CADIS OIL SPILL, BRITTANY, FRANCE; and, PALAU ISLANDS
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| National
Geographic - June 1978, Vol. 153, No. 6 |
Pennsylvania:
Faire Land of William Penn
Glass Treasure from the Aegean (Preserved by the sea for 1,000 years,
priceless Islamic glassware is salvaged from a shipwreck in a Turkish cove
by marine archeologist George F. Bass.)
Living the Good Life in Burgundy (France)
Uncle Sam’s Museum with Wings (Smithsonian Institution’s National Air
and Space Museum)
Bizarre Dragons of the Sea (Terrifying in name and visage only,
12-to-18-inch-long relatives of the sea horse thrive off Australia’s
southern coast. A picture story.)
The Proud Armenians (Though uprooted from their ancestral homeland, a
far-scattered people have not forgotten their traditions or their faith. )
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| PENNSYLVANIA;
ISLAMIC GLASS TREASURE; BURGUNDY, FRANCE; NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM;
AUSTRALIA’S SEA DRAGONS; and, ARMENIANS. |
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| National
Geographic - May 1978, Vol. 153, No. 5 |
Alone
Across the Outback (With four camels and a dog named Diggity, young Robyn
Davidson ventures 1,700 miles across Australia’s western wilderness.)
Mexico: A Very Beautiful Challenge (A bonanza of newfound oil lifts hopes
of a culturally rich but land-poor nation plagued by unemployment.)
It’s a way of life: Mexican Folk Art (From papier-mâché devils to
painted saints, vibrant creations of self-taught craftsmen preserve
centuries-old artistry.)
Hawaii’s Far-flung Wildlife Paradise (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, or
Leewards)
Nashville (Tennessee): More Than Music
Holland’s Beautiful Business of Tulips
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| AUSTRALIA
OUTBACK; MEXICO; MEXICAN FOLK ART; NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, or
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| National
Geographic - April 1978, Vol. 153, No. 4 |
Close-Up:
Canada.: British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon
The First Emperor’s Army: China’s Incredible Find (Audrey Topping and
artist Yang Hsien-min tell of the discovery of a 6,000-strong, life-size
army in clay buried to guard an emperor’s tomb. Known as Ch’in Shih
Huang Ti, the first emperor and the builder of the Great Wall, was buried
in 210 B.C., under an earth mound 15 stories high called Mount Li.)
Chicago! (Illinois)
The Continental Shelf: Man’s New Frontier
Dwellers in the Dark: Termites
Call of the North: Yukon Fever (spirit of the Klondike still alive in
Yukon Territory, Canada) |
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| National
Geographic - March 1978, Vol. 153, No. 3 |
The Change
in Spain
Ladakh, The Last Shangri-La
Wondrous Eyes of Science (Whether probing the atom, mapping far-off
galaxies, or exploring the brain, the camera and other modern means of
image making reveal the unknown.)
The Four-eyed Fish Sees All (Anableps, living along the tops of waters in
rivers and estuaries from southern Mexico to northern South America,
actually has only two eyes, but they are divided into upper and lower
halves, each half with its own focal length.)
Easygoing, Hardworking Arkansas
The Thousand-mile Glide (Riding mountain winds, a veteran sailplaner soars
nonstop from Pennsylvania to Tennessee and home again the same day. Karl
Striedlieck tells of his world-record flight; photographs by Otis Imboden.) |
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| National
Geographic - February 1978, Vol. 153, No. 2 |
Minoans
and Mycenaeans, Sea Kings of the Aegean: Greece’s Brilliant Bronze Age
Our Bald Eagle: Freedom’s Symbol Survives
The Gulf’s Workaday Waterway (Barge crews, yachtsmen, and nature lovers
share a 1,200-mile chain of bays, bayous, rivers, and canals stretching
from Florida’s panhandle to the Mexican border.)
The Living Dead Sea (lowest body of water on earth)
Brazil’s Coast: Golden Beachhead
Behind the Headlines: The Panama Canal Today
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| National
Geographic - January 1978, Vol. 153, No. 1 |
Close-Up:
U.S.A.: The Northeast
Moscow and Its Treasures (Soviet Capital)
Zulu King Weds a Swazi Princess (age-old rites that unite two powerful
African peoples)
The Hudson: That River’s Alive (New York’s historic waterway, befouled
and strangling, flows cleaner than it has in decades)
A Bad Time to be a Crocodile (shrinking realm of those misunderstood,
toothy survivors fro the age of dinosaurs)
New Zealand’s Milford Track: The Walk of a Lifetime
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor (Man flies under his own power in a
frail dragonfly of cardboard, piano wire, and plastic. Michael E. Long
tells how it was done,
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| National
Geographic - December 1977, Vol. 152, No. 6 |
Double
Supplement: How Europe Colonized the Americas
Reach for the New World: Drowned cargoes surface to document the 250-year
struggle between Spain and her rivals
Who Discovered America?: A New Look At an Old Question
The Voyage of Brendan (Timothy Severin and a daring crew add a new
dimension to an old controversy: Could Irish monks in a leather boat have
reached North America nine centuries before Columbus’s world-changing
voyages?)
The Year the Weather Went Wild (Braving blizzard and heat wave, drought
and downpour, Thomas Y. Canby and a team of photographers examine the
causes and consequences of 1976-77’s record-breaking tantrums.)
Japan’s Amazing Inland Sea
The Satin Bowerbird: Australia’s Feathered Playboy (What bird steals
blue clothespins, builds an ingenious hideaway with painted walls to
attract as many as half a dozen mates, and then shrugs off all the
responsibilities of parenthood?) |
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WORLD; BRENDAN VOYAGE; WILD WEATHER 1976-77; JAPAN’S INLAND SEA; and,
AUSTRALIA’S SATIN BOWERBIRD. |
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| National
Geographic - November 1977, Vol. 152, No. 5 |
Kauai, the Island That’s Still Hawaii
Ancient Europe is Older Than We Thought (Bristlecone pines in the American
West help establish new dates for Stonehenge and other monuments, and lead
to some startling ideas about how human cultures developed and spread.)
The Inuit of Umingmaktok (Canada): Still Eskimo, Still Free
Cumberland, My Island for a While (one of Georgia’s Golden Isles)
Montenegro, the Black Mountain (Bryan Hodgson and Linda Bartlett find this
smallest of Yugoslavia’s six republics grappling with an unfamiliar
problem, peace, after centuries of bloody warfare.)
Brazil’s Wild Frontier: Treasure Chest or Pandora’s Box
New Reading Adventures for Children |
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MONTENEGRO, YUGOSLAVIA; and, BRAZIL. |
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| National
Geographic - October 1977, Vol. 152, No. 4 |
Close-Up: U.S.A.:
The Southwest
Oases of Life in the Cold Abyss (Geologists diving to the Galapagos Rift
are astonished to discover colonies of sea creatures basking a mile and a
half down in the warmth of hydrothermal vents.)
The Danube: River of Many Nations Many Names (central Europe’s great
waterway)
Arizona’s Suburbs of the Sun (Phoenix-Tucson are)
Where Can the Wolf Survive? (Biologist L. David Mech surveys the prospects
for an endangered, ever controversial animal, and tells how it ranges and
hunts, lives and dies.)
The Dominican Republic, Caribbean Comeback
Geothermal Energy: The Power of Letting Off Steam
Journeying Through America’s Historylands (book review) |
| GALAPAGOS
RIFT LIFE; DANUBE RIVER; PHOENIX-TUCSON, ARIZONA; WOLF SURVIVAL; DOMINICAN
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| National
Geographic - September 1977, Vol. 152, No. 3 |
Leonardo Da Vinci: A Man for All Ages
California’s North Coast (Redwoods’ rainy realm)
People of the Reindeer (Lapps of Europe’s frozen north)
Salt: The Essence of Life
Africa’s Gentle Giants (Giraffes)
Saving the Rothschild’s Giraffe
Amber, Golden Window on the Past
New National Geographic Index 1947-76 |
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| National
Geographic - August 1977, Vol. 152, No. 2 |
West
Germany: Continuing Miracle
On the Trail of Wisconsin’s Ice Age
The Challenge of Air Safety
Penguins and Their Neighbors (Antarctica)
Five Times to Yakutsk (U.S.S.R.): A veteran photojournalist recalls the
frustrations and delights of covering the Soviet Union, largest country on
earth
Purdah in India: Life Behind the Veil
How Soon Will We Measure in Metric?
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| National
Geographic - July 1977, Vol. 152, No. 1 |
Double
Supplement: America’s Wild and Scenic Rivers
Preserving Our Wild and Scenic Rivers (Rivers Wild and Pure: A Priceless
Legacy)
Our Wild and Scenic Rivers: Montana’s Flathead River
Our Wild and Scenic Rivers: Suwannee River (from Okefenokee Swamp in
Georgia through Florida into the Gulf of Mexico)
Our Wild and Scenic Rivers: St. Croix River (between Wisconsin and
Minnesota)
Our Wild and Scenic Rivers: Skagit River (glacier-fed Pacific Northwest)
Our Wild and Scenic Rivers: Rio Grande River (Nathaniel T. Kenney and Bank
Langmore raft the Rio Grand’s spectacular gorges)
Our Wild and Scenic Rivers: Noatak River (Alaska)
The Rat, Lapdog of the Devil
Turkey: Cross Fire at an Ancient Crossroads
Fertility Rites and Sorcery in a New Guinea Village (Gimi people |
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| National
Geographic - June 1977, Vol. 151, No. 6 |
A Way of Life Called Maine
Loch Ness (Scotland): The Lake and the Legend
South Africa’s Lonely Ordeal
The Hallowed Isle, Mont Saint Michel (French monastery)
People of Myth and Magic (Huichol Indians, Mexico)
Hope for the Bluebird
Know Your World (4 new books review) |
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| National
Geographic - May 1977, Vol. 151, No. 5 |
Double
Supplement: Modern Europe and the Ancient Celts
The Celts
Malaysia: Youthful Nation with Growing Pains
The Tree Nobody Liked (Florida’s red mangrove)
A Village Rises from Ashes (Iceland’s Vestmannaeyjar, all but destroyed
by volcanic eruption four years ago, lives again through the will and toil
of its people.)
New York’s Finger Lakes
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| National
Geographic - April 1977, Vol. 151, No. 4 |
One
Canada, Or Two? (Quebec, Canada)
Walk Across America (New York State to New Orleans, Louisiana)
Pilgrimage to Nepal’s Crystal Mountain (Author-photographer Joel F.
Ziskin crosses lofty Himalayan passes to study a remote pocket of Tibetan
culture.)
Striking It Rich in the North Sea (newest of the world’s major oil
producing regions)
Japan’s Warriors of the Wind (Dueling with huge kites, Hamamatsu’s
neighborhoods honor their firstborn sons.)
Unseen Life of a Mountain Stream (Naturalist William H. Amos takes his
cameras into the cold, seemingly inhospitable world of a Vermont brook,
and finds it teeming with life.)
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| National
Geographic - March 1977, Vol. 151, No. 3 |
Egypt: Two
Perspectives: I. Dazzling Legacy of an Ancient Quest
II. Egypt: Change comes to a changeless land
Afloat on the Untamed Buffalo (America’s first national river, the
Buffalo River in the Arkansas Ozarks)
The Philippines: Better Days Elude an Old Friend
Consider the Sponge…
I Will Fight No More Forever (Chief Joseph’s poignant words still echo
along the path of the Nez Perces’ 1877 retreat. William Albert Allard
retraces the memory-stained route across the U.S. Northwest.)
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