National Geographic March 1986
CONDITION
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Magazine Good, clean
pages, reading wear
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Map Near Mint
CONTENTS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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