National Geographic Index 1947-1976

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I^HIS NEW INDEX, a convenient and comprehensive reference tool, turns your collection of Geographics into a living encyclopedia, pinpointing any of more than 2,000 colorful and informative articles published from January 1947 through December 1976.
The alphabetical listings that make up most of the volume embrace nearly 5,000 subject categories and more than 14,000 entries on nature, science, biography, history, and geography. Open the pages of this index and you open the doors on an immense store of information. You may scale Mount Everest or probe the earth's crust; view the awesome interior of a living cell or ponder the fate of Mexico's ancient Maya; unravel the secrets of animal behavior or uncover man's remote past; cross the Pacific by primitive Polynesian canoe or shrink time and distance aboard spacecraft bound for the moon or Mars.
An indispensable aid to libraries and a boon to the many National Geographic Society members who traditionally preserve their copies of... Tovább

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I^HIS NEW INDEX, a convenient and comprehensive reference tool, turns your collection of Geographics into a living encyclopedia, pinpointing any of more than 2,000 colorful and informative articles published from January 1947 through December 1976.
The alphabetical listings that make up most of the volume embrace nearly 5,000 subject categories and more than 14,000 entries on nature, science, biography, history, and geography. Open the pages of this index and you open the doors on an immense store of information. You may scale Mount Everest or probe the earth's crust; view the awesome interior of a living cell or ponder the fate of Mexico's ancient Maya; unravel the secrets of animal behavior or uncover man's remote past; cross the Pacific by primitive Polynesian canoe or shrink time and distance aboard spacecraft bound for the moon or Mars.
An indispensable aid to libraries and a boon to the many National Geographic Society members who traditionally preserve their copies of Geographics, this volume lists the contents of 360 issues containing more than 35,000 color pictures and 11 million words. It supersedes a previous index covering the years from 1947 through 1969.
Preceding the index section of this volume, Editor Gilbert M. Grosvenor outlines the many reasons for the success of National Geographic since 1947. Foremost among them are the magazine's maintenance of demanding standards of accuracy and detail and the continuing vitality of its editorial presentation.
Lending special force to the Editor's words is an absorbing "Picture History of National Geographic, 1947-1976" immediately following the introduction to the index. Three decades of Geographic photographs highlight memorable articles, recall advances in geography and science fostered by the National Geographic Society, and record the Society's (Continued on back flap)
recent accomplishments and innovative educational services. Accompanying the photographs are brief year-by-year summaries of the milestones marking the most dynamic period of growth in the Society's long and distinguished history: changes in the leadership of the Society and its magazine, significant new publications, awards for photographic and editorial excellence, and some of the Society's most outstanding contributions to geographic knowledge over the past thirty years.
Introductory pages also contain a guide to the Society's researches and expeditions —nearly 1,400 of them, from the year 1890. Medals and awards of the Society, and their recipients, are listed; so too are Society Presidents and Trustees.
Together, this new index and the volume for 1888-1946 chronicle the entire history and evolution of a unique American institution. To order either volume, and any other Society publication, write to:
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