National
Geographic July 1980
CONDITION Magazine, Good, unmarked pages, reading wear; Map Near Mint
CONTENTS
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Shanghai Portfolio – Geographic photographer Bruce Dale
captures the “muscle and smoke,commerce and crowds” of today’s Chinese
metropolis of 11 million.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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