 - India, Dal Lake Flowers, 1999
- 2001-11-01作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：12 评论：0
- A flower seller paddles through Dal Lake's quiet waters. Few observers expect diplomacy to restore equal serenity to his homeland. Buffeted from within and without by waves of seemingly intractable strife, Kashmir faces a stormy future. From Kashmir
 - Massachusetts, Stained Glass Map, 1998
- 2001-11-02作者：：Bob Sacha 点击：14 评论：0
- Brightening with each swipe of a workman's cloth, stained glass in the Christian Science Mapparium in Boston, Massachusetts, shows political boundaries and coastlines charted after millennia of mapmaking. From Revolution in Mapping, February 1998, N
 - Saudi Arabia, Veiled Woman, 1986
- 2001-11-03作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：15 评论：0
- Veiled to all men beyond her family, a young Bedouin woman wears the classic face covering of her people. Given only passing mention in the Koran, Islam's holy book, the veil is an ancient custom traced to India and Persia; it was adopted
 - Canada, Banff Mule Guide, 1993
- 2001-11-04作者：：Raymond Gehman 点击：14 评论：0
- Braving a September snowstorm, guide Barry Ferguson makes a cautious descent from Banff's high country. Ferguson prefers mules over packhorses, he says, 'because a mule looks and thinks before he steps.' From Rocky Times for Banff, July 1995, Nati
 - Italy, San Marco Basillica, 1994
- 2001-11-05作者：：Sam Abell 点击：16 评论：0
- Mirrored in troubling waters, the Basilica of San Marco floats over the central square, Venice's lowest point. High waters are a recurring fact of life in the city, which has sunk five inches [13 centimeters] during the past century even as the sea
 - Monaco, France, Ballerina, 1995
- 2001-11-06作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：23 评论：0
- Offstage, a ballerina relaxes during rehearsal at the Acadmie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace, established with Grace's patronage in 1975. 'Beauty is very important to us,' says founder Marika Besobrasova, 'but also discipline.' From Monaco,
 - Alaska, Tana River Spruce, 1993
- 2001-11-07作者：：George F. Mobley 点击：13 评论：0
- Relentless downhill [wind] currents deposited dunes that choked out a spruce forest along the Tana River. From Alaska's Sky-High Wilderness, May 1994, National Geographic magazine
 - France, Vimy Flight, 1994
- 2001-11-08作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：17 评论：0
- Playing hopscotch with clouds, the [replica of a World War I-era Vickers Vimy bomber] probes a wall of rain in southern France, searching for blue sky. Even light winds tossed the fabric craft like a feather. From The Vimy Flies Again, May 1995, Nati
 - Australia, Magpie Goslings, 1995
- 2001-11-09作者：：Sam Abell 点击：11 评论：0
- Magpie geese nest by the thousands in coastal wetlands. As native people regain traditional lands, the peninsula's natural treasures will increasingly be entrusted to Aboriginal hands. From The Uneasy Magic of Australia's Cape York Peninsula, June
 - Alaska, Tana Glacier, 1993
- 2001-11-10作者：：George F. Mobley 点击：11 评论：0
- As summer sun melts ice atop the [Tana Glacier], rivulets disappear into surface holes. In time trickle becomes torrent, and a hole widens to a moulin, a gaping cave that plunges into the bowels of the icelikely more than a thousand feet [305 meters]
 - Slea Head, Ireland, Statuary, 1993
- 2001-11-11作者：：Sam Abell 点击：11 评论：0
- At remote Slea Head a motorist streaks by religious statuary worn by moody weather. From Ireland On Fast-Forward, September 1994, National Geographic magazine
 - Italy, Venice Regatta, 1994
- 2001-11-12作者：：Sam Abell 点击：14 评论：0
- Flamboyant, radiantly beautiful, Venice owes her grandeur to the sea, a bond celebrated yearly through regattas such as the Vogalonga [pictured]. Today it is a human tide that washes over hermillions come to capture a glimmer of her charms. From Veni
 - Nebraska, Cowboy Silhouettes, 1996
- 2001-11-13作者：：Joel Sartore 点击：13 评论：0
- After weathering an economic slump that hit hard as a hailstorm in the 1980s, Nebraska has rebounded, reinventing itself while still looking out for traditions like the Big Rodeo at Burwell. From Nebraska: Standing Tall Again, November 1998, National
 - South Africa, Windswept Lion, 1995
- 2001-11-14作者：：Chris Johns 点击：12 评论：0
- On the windswept frontier between two nations, a lion patrols the dry Nossob riverbed, center of a vast refuge for big game. Here South Africa's Kalahari Gemsbok National Park is joined by a fenceless border with Botswana's larger Gemsbok National
 - Alaska, Mountain Bikers, 1996
- 2001-11-15作者：：Bill Hatcher 点击：10 评论：0
- Three adventurers carry their mountain bikes during their seven-week, 775-mile [1,247-kilometer] expedition to cross the length of the rugged Alaska Range. (Photograph taken on assignment for, but not published in, Biking Across Alaska, May 1997, Nat
 - Hong Kong, China, Refugee Girl, 1989
- 2001-11-16作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：18 评论：0
- Peering through the wire-mesh wall of her cubicle, a young Vietnamese whose parents hold refugee status awaits passage to a free life in the West. Meanwhile thousands of other Vietnamese youngsters languish in the hellish limbo of detention centers w
 - Canada, Banff Grizzlies, 1993
- 2001-11-17作者：：Raymond Gehman 点击：11 评论：0
- Senses alert to intruders, grizzly bears stand defenseless against development of wildlands. As few as 50 hang on inside Banff, where half their habitat has been lost to human intrusion. From Rocky Times for Banff, July 1995, National Geographic maga
 - Nebraska, Stealth Bomber, 1996
- 2001-11-18作者：：Joel Sartore 点击：15 评论：0
- Designed to be invisible to enemy radar, a B-2 stealth bomber slices across southwestern Nebraska. The state's main military installationOffutt Air Base, in Bellevuemanaged to evade Washington's political guns during a spate of recent base closings
 - Abusir, Egypt, Iufaa Tomb, 1998
- 2001-11-19作者：：Kenneth Garrett 点击：16 评论：0
- The serene face of Iufaa, an Egyptian priest, greets the mortal world for the first time in 2,500 years. Deep below the desert sands, archaeologists from the Czech Republic's Charles University uncovered the rarest of finds, an unlooted tomb with hu
 - Russia, Lake Baikal Forest, 1997
- 2001-11-20作者：：Gerd Ludwig 点击：17 评论：0
- Forests darken the horizon east of Lake Baikal. 'The strength of the taiga,' wrote Anton Chekhov, 'does not lie in its giant trees and its silence, but in that only migrating birds know where it ends.' From Russia's Iron Road, June 1998, Nationa
 - Vatican City, Pope Greeting, 1985
- 2001-11-21作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：11 评论：0
- Shepherd of the world's largest communion, Pope John Paul II delivers Easter greetings in 56 languages from the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica. From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican , 1991
 - Indonesia, Tidore Freshwater Pool, 1976
- 2001-11-22作者：：Bruce Dale 点击：14 评论：0
- A freshwater pool on Tidore still slakes thirst as it did for [Magellan's] crew [in the 1500s]. From Magellan, June 1976, National Geographic magazine
 - Australia, Cape York Beach, 1995
- 2001-11-23作者：：Sam Abell 点击：14 评论：0
- Racing the rising tide, frantic travelers mired on a remote beach signal the photographer's plane for help. 'The pilot radioed authorities in Brisbane, more than a thousand miles away, and they alerted the nearest Aboriginal settlement,' says Sam
 - Spain, Córdoba Mosque, 1998
- 2001-11-24作者：：Stuart Franklin 点击：12 评论：0
- Proud as an aged warrior, the ornate face of Crdoba's Mezquita hints at a life of past glory. Completed by the ruler al-Mansur in A.D. 994, this monument of marble and stone was western Islam's greatest mosque. From Tale of Three Cities, August 199
 - Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zaire Peasants, 1983
- 2001-11-25作者：：James P. Blair 点击：9 评论：0
- Peasants carry wood from a rain forest 85 kilometers (53 miles) southeast of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [then called Zaire], to a charcoal processing plant. (Photograph taken on assignment for, but not published in,
 - Colorado, Great Sand Dunes, 1997
- 2001-11-26作者：：Peter Essick 点击：12 评论：0
- On September 3, 1964, after eight years of deliberation and 66 drafts, an act creating the National Wilderness Preservation System passed under the pen of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The measure established 54 wilderness areas in national forests in
 - Italy, Venetian Newlyweds, 1994
- 2001-11-27作者：：Sam Abell 点击：22 评论：0
- Adrift in bliss, Venetian newlyweds ride a gondola down the Grand Canal. In a city with 42 boating associations, rowing is serious business. 'You should see no visible effort,' says an aficionado, 'just beautiful movement.' From Venice: More Than
 - Washington, Mount Baker Geochemist, 1997
- 2001-11-28作者：：James C. Richardson 点击：16 评论：0
- Taking his work to extremes, USGS [United States Geological Survey] geochemist Robert Symonds collects magma-heated steam in icy Sherman Crater. Mostly water from rain and snow, the steam also holds gases such as carbon dioxide. A change in the mix o
 - Guatemala, Antigua Ruins, 1936
- 2001-11-29作者：：Luis Marden 点击：12 评论：0
- Much of this former capital of Spanish Central America was destroyed by the disastrous earthquake of 1773. Shortly afterward, the seat of government was moved to Guatemala City. Founded in 1542, Antigua had, in the days of its viceregal glory, scores
 - Oregon, Kalmiopsis Wilderness, 1998
- 2001-11-30作者：：Peter Essick 点击：14 评论：0
- In 1964 the United States began designating roadless areas as wilderness. These lands haven't necessarily escaped the hand of man, but they have been given the chance to survive it. Wolves and grizzlies no longer roam Oregon's Kalmiopsis Wilderness
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