NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
1987
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| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1987 |
| $18.00 |
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- National Geographic Magazine
- 1987 (12 issues)
- Note: This is the August cover photo, captioned "Overwhelmed by despair, a boy in Mali reflects the hopelessness of life in Africa’s Sahel, where land abuse helps bankrupt the environment. Despite massive economic aid and relief efforts, its people balance at the edge of survival."
- 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
- MEDICINE’S NEW VISION
- Cover photo: A tumour of the nasopharynx, located by a CT scanner, appears blue in a three-dimensional computer image. The imaging system is being tested at New York City’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a way to aim radiation beams precisely.
- CALIFORNIA DESERT, A WORLDLY WILDNESS
- ICE ON THE WORLD
- GLACIERS ON THE MOVE
- SLOVAKIA’S SPIRT OF SURVIVAL
- February
- ICELAND: LIFE UNDER THE GLACIERS
- Cover photo: Viking descendant nine-year-old Ingibjorg Bjornsdottir takes the midnight sun in Iceland.
- MADAGASCAR: A WORLD APART
- THE APPALACCHIAN TRAIL
- SHAKESPEARE LIVES AT THE FOLGER
- HEROD’S CITY ON THE SEA
- THE ROYAL SPOONBILL
- March
- TOUGH TIMES ON THE PRAIRIE
- Cover photo: Spraying for weevils, a crop duster swings low over sunflower fields in North Dakota’s Red River Valley.
- AUSTRALIA’S SOUTHERN SEAS
- BRAZIL: THE PROMISE AND THE PAIN
- BRAZIL’S MONKEYS IN PERIL
- MYSTERIES OF THE BOG
- April
- SEALS AND THEIR KIN
- Cover photo: A school of anchovies scatters before hungry California sea lions feeding in the Sea of Cortes.
- THE HIGH ANDES
- KAYAKING THE AMAZON
- AN ATMOSPHERE OF UNCERTAINTY
- THE ANTARCTIC CHALLENGE
- IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SCOTT
- ANTARCTICA
- May
- AT HOME WITH THE ARCTIC WOLF
- Cover photo: Denizen of the high Arctic, the male leader of a wolf pack checks the shallows for food.
- UKRAINE
- CHERNOBYL--ONE YEAR AFTER
- NEW ZEALAND: THE LAST UTOPIA?
- THE CAPTIVATING KIWIFRUIT
- June
- GEORGE WASHINGTON’S PATOWMACK CANAL
- Cover photo: An 18th-century-style bateau moves up the Seneca Bypass, where water still runs in the Patowmack Canal.
- TRACKING TORNADOES
- GRAY WHALES MAKE A COMEBACK
- LAOS TODAY
- WATERTON-GLACIER PEACE PARK
- SEALED IN TIME--WHEN ICE ENTOMBED AN ESKIMO FAMILY
- July
- THE PRODIGIOUS SOYBEAN
- Cover photo: A Japanese novice geisha delicately eats a morsel of slippery tofu, a prized product of the soybean.
- THE GREAT LAKES’ TROUBLED WATERS
- AT THE CROSSROADS OF KATHMANDU
- THEY STOPPED THE SEA
- QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, HOMELAND OF THE HAIDA
- LIFE OF THE TIMBLER RATTLESNAKE
- August
- AFRICA’S STRICKEN SAHEL
- Cover photo: Overwhelmed by despair, a boy in Mali reflects the hopelessness of life in Africa’s Sahel, where land abuse helps bankrupt the environment. Despite massive economic aid and relief efforts, its people balance a the edge of survival.
- OASIS OF ART IN THE SAHARA
- THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY: CANADA’S FUR TRADING EMPIRE
- INDIANAPOLIS: CITY ON THE REBOUND
- GIANTS OF THE WILDERNESS: ALASKAN MOOSE
- September
- JADE--STONE OF HEAVEN
- Cover photo: To unlock the secrets of a Maya mask, Dr. Brian Curtiss tests the mosaic with a portable light spectrometer. Long thought to be made of jade, the pieces are look-alikes, except for the ear flares.
- EL MIRADOR: AN EARLY MAYA METROPOLIS UNCOVERED
- JAMES MADISON, ARCHITECT OF THE CONSTITUTION
- LIVING IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY
- CAMEROON’S KILLER LAKE
- October
- WOMEN OF ARABIA
- Cover photo: A colourfully clad Saudi youngster will don the traditional veil of her companion at puberty.
- EPILOGUE FOR TITANIC
- THE MAN WHO MADE TIME STAND STILL
- NORTH CAROLINA’S OUTER BANKS: AWASH IN CHANGE
- RESULTS OF THE SMELL SURVEY
- BALTISTAN: THE 20TH CENTURY COMES TO SHANGRI-LA
- November
- SULEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
- Cover photo: Child of a nomadic family, Suleyman Onal carries a name legendary in Turkey, homeland of the great Ottoman ruler, Suleyman the Magnificent.
- NEW MEXICO: BETWEEN FRONTIER AND FUTURE
- SCORPIONFISH: DANGER IN DISGUISE
- HAITI--AGAINST ALL ODDS
- COLUMBUS’S LOST COLONY
- THE PUMPHOUSE GANG MOVES TO A STRANGE NEW LAND
- December
- OLDEST KNOWN SHIPWRECK REVEALS BRONZE AGE SPLENDOURS
- Cover photo: Raw material of the Bronze Age, a four-handled copper ingot concreted to a round one is removed by an archaeologist off Turkey from the site of the world’s oldest shipwreck yet found.
- SEA CHANGE IN THE SEA ISLANDS
- NOMANDS’ LAND: A JOURNEY THROUGH TIBET
- WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED SLEEP?
- RED CRABS OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND
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