Vintage NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine Vol.159 No. 2 February 1981 with SUPPLEMENT

A Vintage copy of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine Vol.159 No. 2 February 1981

Featuring:

Where Oil and Wildlife Mix

Industry and nature share bountiful shorelands along the Gulf coast of Texas. Biologists Steven C. Wilson and Karen C. Hayden assess a long-term success and a recent near disaster.

Skiing a Chinese Peak

U. S. adventurers climb and ski down a 24,757-foot mountain in western China. Ned Gillette and Galen Rowell describe and photograph the feat.

Strange Ride in the Deep

Author Peter Benchley tells of an extraordinary undersea event: Filmmakers aid an injured manta ray, and it carries them gently around on its back.

Minoan Human Sacrifice

In a 3,700-year-old temple in Crete, archaeologists Yannis Sakellarakis and Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki find dramatic evidence of a priest performing a ritual killing amid a violent earthquake. With photographs by Spyros Tsavdaroglou and Otis Imboden, and an overview by Joseph Alsop.

Paradise Comes of Age: the U. S. Virgin Islands

A tidal wave of tourists and new settlers brings social strains as well as fresh vitality. By Thomas J. Colin, William Albert Allard, and Cary Wolinsky.

The Seething Caribbean

Noel Grove and photographer Steve Raymer visit a dozen island nations to document a rising gale of political problems and human discontent. A special double map supplement focuses on the region.

Liechtenstein: A Modern Fairy Tale

Robert Booth and John Launois discover that less really can be more, in a postage-stamp land nestled high in the Alps.

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