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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.09.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Vol. 99, no. 6. (nature, geography, anthropology) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. [6 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 1-150, [and 4 pages of advertisements with some color]. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Folding page. Cover has wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.This issue includes: Taiwan, The Watchful Dragon by Helen Schreider and Frank Schreider; Remote Sensing: New Eyes to See the World by Kenneth F. Weaver; Oregon's Many Faces by Stuart E. Jones and Bates Littlehales; Lanzarote, The Strangest Canary by Stephanie Dinkins; and The Quetzal, Fabulous Bird of Maya Land by Anne LaBastille Bowes and David G. Allen.Kenneth Franklin Weaver (November 29, 1915 - September 20, 2010) enjoyed a substantial 33-year career as a writer for the National Geographic Magazine. He retired as Senior Science Editor in 1985. In 1952, Weaver was hired at The National Geographic in the legends department. "Legends" were the captions that accompanied the innovative,photography that the Geographic pioneered. Weaver's work was widely viewed. He was quickly promoted to Staff Writer. His first Geographic article was published in July 1953.Bates Littlehales was a staff photographer for the National Geographic Society for 37 years. He is considered one of the pioneers of underwater photography and designed the OceanEye housing for the Nikon F and all of its interchangeable lenses.Anne LaBastille (November 20, 1933 - July 1, 2011) was an American author, ecologist, and photographer. She was the author of more than a dozen books, including Woodswoman, Beyond Black Bear Lake, and Women of the Wilderness. She also wrote over 150 articles and over 25 scientific papers. She was honored by the World Wildlife Fund and the Explorers Club for her pioneering work in wildlife ecology in the United States and Guatemala. LaBastille also took many wildlife photographs, many of which were published in nature publications. LaBastille started out as a contributing writer to several wildlife magazines, including Sierra Club and National Geographic. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus.

Wraps. Zustand: Very good. [12 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 301-448, [and 4 pages of advertisements with some color]. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Folding page. Cover has wear and soiling. Ink mark on front cover. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.This issue includes: The Coming Revolution in Transportation by Frederic C. Appel and Dean Conger; Florida's Manatees, Mermaids in Peril by Daniel S. Hartman and James A. Sugar; The Friendly Irish by John Scofield and James A. Sugar; Lonely Cape Hatteras, Besieged by the Sea by William S. Ellis and Emory Kristof; and Okinawa, The Island Without a Country by Jules B. Billard and Winfield Parks.Dean Conger after nine years with the Denver Post, joined the National Geographic Society as a staff photographer in 1959. His assignments took him all over Europe and Asia as well as across the United States. Conger made more than 30 trips to what was then the Soviet Union, photographing for National Geographic magazine and for the National Geographic book Journey Across Russia. That effort won him a citation of excellence from the Overseas Press Club and the World Understanding Award from the University of Missouri in partnership with the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and Nikon. Named Newspaper Photographer of the Year three times during the 1950s and Magazine Photographer of the Year in the 1962 Pictures of the Year competition, Conger also received the NPPA Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award in 1987 for a lifetime of outstanding work in photojournalism. He served in the National Geographic's Photography Division, later directing its Audiovisual Services Division. James Sugar joined National Geographic in 1967 as a summer intern. Two years later he joined as a full-time contract photographer, and he worked for the National Geographic Society until 1992. In that time, Sugar photographed dozens of stories for National Geographic magazine. Sugar worked on more than 20 stories for National Geographic. His published works cover a range of topics, including Iceland, Ireland, manatees, sea stars, truck drivers, the Balearic Islands, the San Francisco earthquake, and Halley's comet. Sugar worked on several National Geographic books, including Railroads: The Great American Adventure, America's Sunset Coast, Secret Corners of the World, Alaska's Magnificent Parklands, Canada's Incredible Coasts, Mysteries of Mankind, and Our Changing Earth.A pioneer of innovative, high-tech underwater photography using robot cameras and remotely operated vehicles, Emory Kristof has been a National Geographic photographer since beginning as an intern for the magazine in 1963. Kristof created the preliminary designs of the electronic camera system for the Argo vehicle, which found the Titanic. He led photographic surveys of the C.S.S. Alabama in 1992 and the 16th-century wreck San Diego in the Philippines in 1993. In 1995, he led an expedition to recover the bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald and produced the first deep-water images with high-definition TV. Kristof's "Testing the Waters of Rongelap," published in National Geograph.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. [22 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 593-736, [and 14 pages of advertisements with some color]. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Some folding pages. Cover has wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.This issue includes: Queensland: Young Titan of Australia's Tropic North by Kenneth MacLeish and Winfield Parks; Today Along the Natchez Trace, Pathway Through History by Bern Keating and Charles Harbutt; The World of Elizabeth I by Louis B. Wright and Ted Spiegel; Little Tibet in Switzerland by Laura Pilarski and Fred Mayer; and Our Friend from the Sea by Robert Horstman, Nina Horstman, and Robert F. Sisson.Kenneth MacLeish was an editor and writer with the National Geographic and was the son of Archibald MacLeish.Winfield I. Parks Jr. (born April 24, 1932 -August 11, 1977) was an American photographer. He was a staff photographer with the National Geographic Society from 1961 until 1977. He traveled extensively contributing countless stories to the NGS Magazine and NGS books, both photography and writing. His prizewinning, mural sized, black and white photograph of the American team in the America's Cup is still displayed in the lobby of the Providence Journal where he started his career. Bern Keating had his own photography studio and did local projects until Quentin Reynolds helped him to become a world photographer. Reynolds used Keating's services and showed his work to editors in New York. Major publications were soon requesting Keating's photographs. Keating has won many awards including a Pulitzer. Also, Keating has contributed regularly to many publications, including: Smithsonian, Look, Life, , National Geographic, Saturday Evening Post, and Reader's Digest.Charles Henry Harbutt (July 29, 1935 - June 30, 2015) was an American photographer, a former president of Magnum, and full-time Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons School of Design in New York. Harbutt's work is deeply rooted in the modern photojournalist tradition. For the first twenty years of his career he contributed to major magazines in the United States, Europe and Japan.Louis Booker Wright was an American author, educator and librarian. Wright was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the author of numerous books about the American colonial period, and he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.Among the organizations Wright served after his retirement in 1968 was the National Geographic Society. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus.

Wraps. Zustand: Very good. [20 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 445-592, [and 12 pages of advertisements with some color]. Illustrations (many in color). Map. Special Supplement: Archeological Map of Middle America IS NOT PRESENT. Some folding pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.This issue includes: A Teen-ager Sails the World Alone by Robin Lee Graham; Mexico's New Museum, Window on the Past by Bart McDowell and R. Anthony Stewart; Great Smokies National Park Solitude for Millions by Gordon Young and James L. Amos, Journey into Golden Greece and Rome by Melville Bell Grosvenor; and Antarctica: Icy Testing Ground for Space by Samuel W. Matthews and Robert W. Madden.Robin Lee Graham (born March 5, 1949) is an American sailor. He set out to sail around the world alone as a teenager in the summer of 1965. National Geographic Magazine ( Oct. '68, April '69, Oct. '70) carried the story, and he co-wrote a book, titled Dove, detailing his journey. Before beginning his around-the-world journey. At the age of sixteen, he started out heading west in his 24-foot sloop. He married along the way and, after almost five years, ended his journey in Los Angeles instead of finishing his around-the-world journey where he started in Hawaii. Graham's book about his voyage, Dove, was published in 1972. His voyage was depicted in a film, The Dove (1974). A follow-up book, Home Is The Sailor, was published in 1983.Bart McDowell was a writer and senior editor at the National Geographic Magazine, where he worked for 32 years. B. Anthony Stewart joined the National Geographic in 1927 as a photo lab bookkeeper, but came to the attention of National Geographic chairman Gil Grosvenor as a talented photographer. Until he retired in 1969, he was always a staff photographer. His work epitomizes the early days of documentary photography. He used all of the emerging photographic technologies but his technique came from an earlier era and he took painstaking efforts to set up every detail in a photograph so composition was perfect. When in July 1959 National Geographic decided to break its nearly century long policy of not having photographs on its cover, it was a patriotic image shot by Stewart that was chosen to launch its series of the world's most recognized magazine covers.Gordon Young served the U.S. Army in Korea, obtained a B.S. at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, then moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand to work for the U.S. Government. There he also did field collecting for museums, founded the now famous Chiang Mai Zoo with his father, and compiled the first significant informal ethnographic study of Thailand's northern hill tribe peoples. Naturalist-hunter-ethnologist, Young's life has spanned some forty years in South and Southeast Asia. Jim Amos was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan in a musical family. He studied photography and photographic technology at Rochester Institute of Technology and then worked for Eastman Kodak Company. In 1967 he left Kodak to become a freelance photographer, which led to a twenty-six year career making photographs for Nat.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. [22 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 449-592, [and 8 pages of advertisements with some color]. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Double Map Supplement on the Pacific Ocean is present. Folding page. Cover has wear and soiling. Several rear corners creased. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.This issue includes: In the Wake of Darwin's Beagle by Alan Villiers and James L. Stanfield; Look What's Happened to Honolulu! by Jim Becker and Bates Littlehales; Journey into the Age of Chivalry by Melville Bell Grosvenor; Man Versus Nature: Southern California's Trail by Mud and Water by Nathaniel T. Kenney and Bruce Dale; and Midwest Flood--"Not Since Noah Such Warning" by Peter T. White and Thomas A. DeFEO.Alan John Villiers (23 September 1903 - 3 March 1982) was an author, adventurer, photographer and mariner. Villiers wrote 44 books, and served as the Chairman of the Society for Nautical Research, a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, and Governor of the Cutty Sark Preservation Society. He was awarded the British Distinguished Service Cross as a Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve during the Second World War.Bates Littlehales was a staff photographer for the National Geographic Society for 37 years, He is considered one of the pioneers of underwater photography and designed the OceanEye housing for the Nikon F and all of its interchangeable lenses. Nature assignments for National Geographic reaffirmed his zeal for the natural world. In retirement he has again published in National Geographic magazine, as well as National Geographic Traveler and World (now National Geographic Kids).Melville Bell Grosvenor was the president of the National Geographic Society and editor of The National Geographic Magazine from 1957 to 1967. A photography enthusiast, he increased the size of printed photographs in the magazine, and initiated the practice, of opening articles with a two-page photo feature. Under Grosvenor's tenure, National Geographic also began to branch out from land expeditions to cover investigations into space and the deep sea.Bruce Dale worked exclusively for National Geographic for 30 years. His assignments varied from undersea to aerial photography and from people to complex science subjects while working in over 75 countries. Over 2,000 of his images appeared in their publications. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 448 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. / zonder stofomslag Dutch.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 448 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Dutch.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good, trade paperback map, clean.