National Geographic April 1977

CONDITION 

Magazine – Acceptable, text and pictures unmarked; reading and cover wear, cover wear may vary

FEATURES

One Canada—or Two? – A political upset has given new impetus to the drive toward an independent Quebec, Peter T White and Winfield Parks report on the most explosive issue Canadians Have faced in this century.

Walk Across America – A young Connecticut Yankee travels afoot from New York State to New Orleans. Along the way he gains a new awareness of his country—and of himself. By Peter Gorton Jenkins

Pilgrimage to Nepal’s Crystal Mountain – Author-photographer Joel F Ziskin crosses lofty Himalayan passes to study a remote pocket on Tibetan culture.

Striking It Rich in the North Sea – rick Gore finds awesome new technology, Texas oilmen—and billions of dollars—at work in this newest of the world’s major producing oil regions. Photographs by Dick Durrance II.

Japan’s Warriors of the Wind – Dueling with huge kites, Hamamatsu’s neighborhoods honor their firstborn sons. By David Alan Harvey and John Eliot.

Unseen Life of a Mountain Stream – Naturalist William H Amos takes his cameras into the cold, seemingly inhospitable world of a Vermont brook , and finds it teeming with life.

COVER

Official portrait of Nepal’s King decorates the saffron jacket of a young Buddhist of remote Dolpo. Photograph by Joel F Ziskin.

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