National Geographic March 1984

CONDITION 

·        MAGAZINE Acceptable, unmarked text, reading wear, spine scraped

CONTENTS

·        China’s Remote Peoples – They are the other Chinese—nomads, farmers, monks, mountain tribesmen—almost 70 million people in a nation exceeding a billion. Journalist Wong How-Man travels 11,000 miles to visit China’s little-known “national minorities.”

·        The Laser: “A Splendid Light” – Dazzling in its uses, the laser taps the awesome power of light for technologies form medicine to the military. Allen A Boraiko and Chares O’Rear illuminate its bright promise.  

·        The Wonder of Holography – Interacting streams of laser light create three-dimensional images that intrigue artists, foil counterfeiters, and pinpoint industrial flaws. Dr. H John Caulfield reports, with photographs by Charles O’Rear.

·        Canada’s Not-So-Wild West – Once a tough little cow town, Calgary is now the flamboyant oil capital of Canada. David Boyer and photographer Ottmar Bierwagen chronicle its rough-and-tumble ride on fortune’s wheel.

·        They’re Killing Off the Rhino – From Africa to the Far East, this powerful but venerable behemoth is rapidly disappearing. Conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin and photographer Jim Brandenburg track the rhino form its shrinking habitat to far-flung market-places that spur its demise.

COVER

·        A miniature model of a bald eagle appears in three dimensions in a hologram produced by the American Bank Note Company. The image is best viewed under a single light source.

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