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[32 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 707-844, [and 10 pages of advertisements with some color]. Illustrations (with Fifty-six pages in color. Maps. Map of Western Europe present. Cover has some wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.This issue includes: Home to the Holy Land by Maynard Owen Williams with 41 Illustrations and Map, 31 in Natural Colors; Mid-Century Holland Builds Her Future by Sydney Clark with 33 Illustrations and map, 24 in Natural Colors; Exploring the World of Gems by W. F> Foshag with 34 Illustrations, 24 in Natural Colors; Large-Scale Western Europe Map, J. W. Westcott, Postman for the Great Lakes by Cy La tour with 15 Illustrations, and Darius Carved History on Ageless Rock by George G. Cameron with 14 Illustrations and map. Maynard Owen Williams (September 12, 1888-June 1963) was a National Geographic correspondent from 1919. He was an inveterate traveller who began travelling in his teens, explored Asia and witnessed the Russian Revolution, among other adventures.Williams was the Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and his reports include a description of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1923. Maynard Williams was also an excellent photographer, and pioneered travel photography.William Frederick Foshag (17 March 1894 - 21 May 1956) was an American geologist and mineralogist. He published nearly 100 papers and described 13 new minerals, including foshagite. Foshag received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1919 and then joined the U.S. National Museum, now called the National Museum of Natural History. As head curator of the Museum's Department of Geology, Foshag greatly increased the Museum's mineral collections and its collections of gemstones. Much of Foshag's fame stems from his study of the Parícutin volcano, which for the first time gave scientists an opportunity to study a volcano's entire "life cycle." Foshag was in Mexico in 1943 when the Parícutin volcano first appeared. He remained in Mexico for more than two years documenting the growth of Parícutin. John W. Westcott made a big impact on the Great Lakes. At age 20, John earned his master's papers, becoming (at the time) the youngest captain on fresh water. John had the idea of a marine reporting agency that would transmit destination and dock information to passing vessels. From his dock on Belle Isle, Westcott would row out to passing boats. Over the years, the business grew and services expanded. In 1948, J.W. Westcott became an official U.S. Postal Service mail boat, earning the world's first floating postal ZIP code-48222. George Glenn Cameron was a philologist and historian. Cameron began his career as instructor in Oriental languages and history at the Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago in 1933, rising to associate professor. In 1948 he left Chicago, with the support of the Carnegie Foundation and subsequently the Ford Foundation, founded the Department of Near Eastern Studies at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, one of the first to exemplify the concept of are.
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