National Geographic March 1986

CONDITION

·        Magazine Good, clean pages, reading wear

·        Map Near Mint

CONTENTS

·        Secrets of the Wild Panda – Survivors in an ever diminishing habitat, China’s living national treasurers need protection. Zoologist George B Schaller reports on an international project to save them.

·        Sam Houston: A Man Too Big for Texas – As statesman, soldier, and frontiersman, the champion of Texas independence was a giant of his age, reports Bart McDowell, a son of the Lone Star State. With photographs by Charles O’Rear and a double supplement map—The Making of America: Texas.

·        Morocco’s Ancient City of Fez – A medieval time capsule, the Islamic center lives in the past while fighting an exodus to its nearby modern counterpart. By Harvey Arden, with photographs by Bruno Barbey.

·        Narwhals, Arctic Unicorns – Flip Nicklin captures photographs of bizarre duels among these little-known denizens of northern seas, being studied by biologists John and Deborah Ford.

·        Tenn-Tom Waterway: Bounty or Boondoggle? – Is the new barge route linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers another pork barrel, jor will the two-billion-dollar project boost the South? Carolyn Bennett Patterson and photographer Sandy Felsenthal report.

·        On Britain’s Pennie Way – David Yeadon walks the 270-mile trail from central England into Scotland. Photographs by Annie Griffiths.

COVER – Briefly a freeloader, a panda called Zhen-Zhen take sover a study team’s tent in China’s Sichuan Province. Photograph by George B Schaller.

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