NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
1985
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| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1985 |
| $16.50 |
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- National Geographic Magazine
- 1985 (11 issues, February missing)
- NOTE: This set includes the famous picture on the cover of the June issue: Haunting eyes and a tattered garment tell the plight of a girl who fled her native Afghanistan for a refugee camp in Pakistan. I also have the issue containing the famous picture showing her found (see April, 2002)!
- National Geographic magazines are very high quality colour magazines printed on glossy paper. They occasionally include foldouts. The magazines we have used are in very good condition but the spines show some wear (they are in fairly good condition). No supplements or maps are included.
Major Subjects for Each Issue
- January
- KOKO’S KITTEN
- Cover photo: Koko the gorilla snuggles with her new companion, a kitten she calls All Ball.
- THE PLANETS: BETWEEN FIRE AND ICE
- YOSEMITE--FOREVER?
- THE NEW FACE OF BAGHDAD
- JAMAICA: HARD TIMES, HIGH HOPES
- March
- STORING UP TROUBLE…HAZARDOUS WASTE
- Cover photo: Deadly ooze containing PCB’s is the harvest of a technician cleaning toxic chemicals from an abandoned dump in Michigan.
- WHEN THE VIKINGS SAILED EAST
- SUSQUEHANNA: AMERICA’S SMALL-TOWN RIVER
- MINIATURE HORSES
- OF SPIRITS AND SAINTS
- April
- WHEN THE MOGULS RULED
- Cover photo: Tones of a sitar fill a garden in Lahore, Pakistan, built by Mogul Shah Jahan.
- THOSE ETERNAL AUSTRIANS
- NR-1, INNER-SPACE SHUTTLE
- FOCUS ON INDIA
- TROUBLED KABUL
- NEW DELHI: INDIA’S MIRROR
- ISLE ROYALE, PARK PRIMEVAL
- May
- VIETNAM MEMORIAL--AMERICA REMEMBERS ECHOES OF A WAR
- Cover photo: Former Ranger Michael Kentes of Alexandria, Virginia, finds names of lost comrades at the Vietnam Memorial.
- TO HEAL A NATION
- JOURNEY UP THE NILE--RIVER OF LEGEND
- WORLDS WITHIN THE ATOM
- A SHORT HIKE WITH BOB MARSHALL
- BATTLE FOR A BIGGER BOB
- June
- ALONG AFGHANISTAN’S WAR-TORN FRONTER
- Cover photo: Haunting eyes and a tattered garment tell the plight of a girl who fled her native Afghanistan for a refugee camp in Pakistan.
- NO WAY TO RUN A DESERT
- U.S./MEXICAN BORDER: LIFE ON THE LINE
- RETURN OF JAVA’S WILDLIFE
- FAIR SKIES FOR THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
- July
- 16TH CENTURY BASQUE WHALERS IN AMERICA
- Cover photo: Reading a new chapter in Canada’s history, a diver lifts a timber from the stern of a 16th-century Basque whaling vessel found off Labrador.
- ISRAEL: SEARCHING FOR THE CENTER
- HAMPTON ROADS, WHERE THE RIVERS END
- IRAN UNDER THE AYATOLLAH
- SAVING THE WORLD’S LARGEST FLOWER
- August
- THE LAND WHERE THE MURRAY FLOWS
- Cover photo: Cowhand Kay Sinclair takes a breather near the source of the Murray River.
- OUR RESTLESS PLANET EARTH
- EARTH’S DYNAMIC CRUST AND THE SHAPING OF A CONTINENT
- FOSSILS: ANNALS OF LIFE WRITTEN IN ROCK
- THE PEARL
- SENEGAMBIA--A NOW AND FUTURE NATION
- September
- SICHUAN: WHERE CHINA CHANGES COURSE
- Cover photo: A Chinese couple hold pigs from their Sichuan farm, which earns them about $2,500 a year.
- HUMBOLDT’S WAY
- HOME TO KANSAS
- ERITREA: REGION IN REBELLION
- JASON’S VOYAGE: IN SEARCH OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE
- October
- FRANKINCENSE TRAIL
- Cover photo: Dye motif adorns the hand of a woman in North Yemen on the ancient frankincense trail.
- WRECK OF H.M.S. PANDORA
- THE TWO SAMOAS, STILL COMING OF AGE
- USAMACINTA RIVER--TROUBLES ON A BORDER
- THE TRIUMPHANT TRUMPETER SWAN
- November
- HOMO ERECTUS UNEARTHED
- Cover photo: Fossil skull of a five-year-old child, preserved for more than (sic) a million years in a South African cave, appears actual size in three dimensions in a hologram, best viewed under a single lamp or in direct sunlight. Produced by the American Bank Note Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of International Banknote Company, Inc.
- THE SEARCH FOR OUR ANCESTORS
- KLUANE: CANADA’S ICY WILDERNESS PARK
- CANADA’S VACATIONLANDS
- THE GREAT GOOD PLACES
- December
- HOW WE FOUND TITANIC
- Cover photo: A rattail fish glides in the deep above Titanic’s foredeck, port rail, and mooring bitts.
- VATICAN CITY
- TREASURES OF THE VATICAN
- NICARAGUA: NATION IN CONFLICT
- DANIEL BOONE
- THE OHIO VALLEY
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