National Geographic March 1992

CONDITION 

Good, unmarked pages, reading wear

CONTENTS

A Curious Kinship: Apes and Humans – By Eugene Linden, Photographs by Michael Nichols – From Awe to indifference, caring to cruelty, contradictions mark our attitudes toward our closest animal relatives, the great apes—orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas.

Bonobos, Chimpanzees With a Difference – By Eugene Linden, Photographs by Frans Lanting – Found only in the tropical forest of Zaire and declared a separate species in 1933, bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees, display decidedly unchimpanzee-like behavior.

Douglas MacArthur: An American Soldier – By Geoffrey C Ward, Photographs by Cary Wolinsky – “It’s the orders you disobey that make you famous.” So said the flamboyant, controversial general who strode to a place in history by flouting convention.

Sacred Peaks of the Andes – Article and photographs by Johan Reinhard – Ceremonial platforms atop 20,000-foot peaks yield Inca silver, gold, and mummified human remains, sacrifices to local deities. Even today peoples of the high Andes worship the mountain gods.

Lake Tahoe—Playing for High Stakes – By Ernest B Furguson, Photographs by George F Mobley – Will tight controls on land use save the famed blue waters of this Sierra Nevada lake, already inundated with casinos, subdivisions, and vacationers? Place your bets.

COVER

Face of a philosopher, personality of a spoiled child, a male named Frodo belongs to a family of chimpanzees observed by jane Goodall for 30 years at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Photograph by Michael Nichols.

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