Vintage NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine Vol.158 No. 2 August 1980

A Vintage copy of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine Vol.158 No. 2 August 1980

Featuring:

Water: Our Most Precious Resource

Thomas Y. Canby looks at how the nation uses and abuses its vast store of fresh water: purifies it, distributes it, benefits from it, and increasingly depletes it. Photographs by Ted Spiegel.

Here's to Milwaukee

A heady ethnic brew of citizens share the view that theirs is the best town around, as Louise Levathes and Michael Mauney discover.

Eighty Centuries of Veracruz

For nearly two decades archaeologist S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson has documented an 8,000-year record of human habitation on Mexico's Gulf coast. Photographs by David Hiser and paintings by Richard Schlecht.

Bordeaux-Fine Wines and Fiery Gascons

France's Bordelais region is justly famed for vintages of excellence and people of flamboyant independence. By William Davenport, with photographs by Adam Woolfitt.

Flight of the Kitty Hawk

A father and son, Maxie and Kristian Anderson, make the first coast-to-coast balloon crossing of North America on the winds of May.

The Wild World of Compost

A startling microcosm of tiny creatures helps turn garden waste piles into rich organic humus. Naturalist Cecil E. Johnson and photographer Bianca Lavies explore the process.

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