National Geographic July 1980

CONDITION   Magazine, Good, unmarked pages, reading wear; Map Near Mint

CONTENTS

·        Shanghai Portfolio – Geographic photographer Bruce Dale captures the “muscle and smoke,commerce and crowds” of today’s Chinese metropolis of 11 million.

·        China’s Born-again Giant – Mike Edwards finds signs of stabilization in Shanghai, a city that has known both the “heights of progress and the depths of chaos.” With photographs by Bruce Dale, plus a double supplement map of China and its people.

·        The Pony Express: Grit and Glory – Indians and the elements warred against those young couriers of 1860-61 who galloped into legend. Rowe Findley and photographer Craig Aurness retrace the historic route.

·        Return to Uganda – With her Canadian husband, a Ugandan woman goes home after seven years, to find that her nation’s sorrows did not end with the fall of Idi Amin. By Jerry and Sarah Kambites, with photographs by Sarah Leen.

·        The Bulgarians: People to Match a Rugged Land – Boyd Gibbons frames a portrait of spirit, industry, and a will to make do in a socialist system that offers few luxuries and squelches criticism. Photographs by James L Stanfield

·        Bulgaria’s Ancient Treasures – A trove of copper and gold artifacts supports author Colin Renfrew’s theory that metallurgy evolved in Europe independent of Near East influences. Photographs by James L Stanfield; paintings by Jean-Leon Huens

·        Giant Otters, a Vanishing Breed – IN the jungles of Suriname, Nicole Duplaix studies South America’s endangered “big water dogs.” Photographs by Bates Littlehales.

Cover – An 8-inch-high horse of silver and gold attests the wealth of the Thracians of ancient Bulgaria. Photograph by James L Stanfield

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