 - Kashmir, India, Saffron Field, 1999
- 2001-10-01作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：10 评论：0
- From each crocus flower patient hands will pluck three vivid garnet strands of saffron. An acre yields only a few pounds of the world's most costly spice. Lush fields and placid lakes once drew more than half a million tourists a year, but civil unr
 - Indonesia, Orangutan Family, 1998
- 2001-10-02作者：：Tim Laman 点击：9 评论：0
- A fistful of mother's skin and hair keeps one-year-old Bekti aloft as she rides on Beth, who is hurtling herself through the forest. It will likely be almost seven years before Bekti will have a younger sibling, one of the intriguing aspects of oran
 - Australia, Boab Tree, 1991
- 2001-10-03作者：：Sam Abell 点击：13 评论：0
- Lord of the bush, a massive boab tree, close relative of the African and Madagascan baobabs, stands solitary near Wyndham in the Kimberley region. Scientists conjecture that baobab fruit rafted on flotsam from Madagascar about 75 million years ago, t
 - Ballerina and Kitten, 1997
- 2001-10-04作者：：Karen Kuehn 点击：19 评论：0
- Wrapped in creamy satin or Russian blue fur, dancer and kitten exemplify grace. Ballerinas coat their toe shoes with rosin to avoid onstage slips. A cat's paw pads provide similar traction and muffle each footfall. From Cats: Nature's Masterwork, J
 - Massachusetts, Bedbug, 1998
- 2001-10-05作者：：Darlyne A. Murawski 点击：10 评论：0
- In nightmarish proportions, a common bedbug appears poised for a blood meal, compliments of a human host. Countless organisms live and feed on us. For some, we're their mainstay; for others, we're just fast food. From Body Beasts, December 1998, Na
 - New York, Steamy Broadway Night, 1990
- 2001-10-06作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：12 评论：0
- The steamy diversions of Broadway's Times Square area provoke bored yawns from native Manhattanites who have seen it all. From Broadway: Street of Dreams, September 1990, National Geographic magazine
 - Eypt, Sacred Egyptian Tomb, 1998
- 2001-10-07作者：：Kenneth Garrett 点击：10 评论：0
- Sacred stories unfold across 16 chambers and corridors in the tomb of Seti I, father of Ramses II. 'For the Egyptians, the plan of a tomb was like a road map from this world to the next,' says the author [Kent R. Weeks]. 'The tomb's decorations w
 - Canada, Tundra Polar Bear Kiss, 1998
- 2001-10-08作者：：Flip Nicklin 点击：13 评论：0
- More than 5,000 visitors a year ride outsize vehicles called Tundra Buggies to see the famed Hudson Bay polar bears near Churchill. All are admonished by guides to keep a healthy distance from curious bears that approach their buggies. In this case o
 - U.S. West, Kissing Prairie Dogs, 1998
- 2001-10-09作者：：Raymond Gehman 点击：9 评论：0
- Prairie dogs touch noses in a possible prelude to a kin recognition ritual that involves a touching of teeth and sometimes a locking of incisors. Recent research shows that the animals' alarm calls consist of a broad vocabulary of descriptions to ch
 - Ecuador, White Salema Feeding, 1999
- 2001-10-10作者：：David Doubilet 点击：12 评论：0
- Pacific swells push against Darwin Island, where white salema and black triggerfish feed beneath breaking waves. Here 20 years ago Jerry and I were intimidated by huge squadrons of sharkshammerhead and the more aggressive Galpagos sharks. Now I see j
 - Egypt, King Tut Coffin, 1998
- 2001-10-11作者：：Kenneth Garrett 点击：9 评论：0
- Preserving the dignity of a dead king, mortuary priests placed the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in a solid gold coffin, which was nestled in a wooden coffin, which was tucked inside yet a third. Nearby chambers held Tut's legendary trove of funerary
 - Central America, Village Women Carry Water, 1998
- 2001-10-12作者：：Steve Winter 点击：11 评论：0
- Village women carrying water jugs. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, The Elusive Quetzal, June 1998, National Geographic magazine)
 - South America, Orinoco Crocodile, 1998
- 2001-10-13作者：：Robert Caputo 点击：9 评论：0
- For handbags, belts, and shoes, Orinoco crocodiles in South America were hunted ruthlessly for decades. By the mid-1960s they had been nearly wiped out in the Orinoco River Basin of Venezuela and Colombia. In 1976 hunting was banned, but the damage w
 - Saudi Arabia, Jiddah Beach, 1987
- 2001-10-14作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：9 评论：0
- Popularized by the elite of seventh-century Arabia, the facial veil and head covering worn by a woman on the beach at Jiddah contrast with youngsters' colorful dresses. Veiling became fashionable during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad, perhaps
 - Canada, Banff Visitors, 1993
- 2001-10-15作者：：Raymond Gehman 点击：9 评论：0
- Picture-perfect scenery, such as Peyto Lake, lures more than four million visitors to Banff annually. Such intense use concerns biologists, who say the outlook for the park's wildlife is not a pretty picture. From Rocky Times for Banff, July 1995, N
 - England, Vimy Pilots, 1994
- 2001-10-16作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：8 评论：0
- Engines exposed for scrutiny, American Peter McMillan, at right, and Australian copilot Lang Kidby test their ship over England before setting out for the land down under. Their Vimy, a replica of a 1919 British bomber, would prove a handful to fly.
 - Oman, Bedouin With Camel, 1995
- 2001-10-17作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：8 评论：0
- [The camel] supplies milk to the Harasis tribe. While the nomadic life endures, some Bedouin commute from camps to jobs in town. From Oman, May 1995, National Geographic magazine
 - Oman, Bride in Henna, 1995
- 2001-10-18作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：10 评论：0
- Flush with wealth from its oil fields, the Sultanate of Oman has catapulted from Arabian Peninsula backwater to modern nationwhile keeping alive traditions such as lailat al henna, a women-only celebration to honor the bride on the eve of her wedding
 - Venezuela, Venezuela Scarlet Ibises, 1997
- 2001-10-19作者：：Robert Caputo 点击：8 评论：0
- Labored wingbeats lift scarlet ibises from the llanos, the vast grasslands of Venezuelas interior. During the May-through-November wet season the flooding Orinoco [River] and its tributaries turn the llanos into an inland sea, attracting thousands of
 - West Virginia, Bridge Jump, 1999
- 2001-10-20作者：：Susie Post Rust 点击：10 评论：0
- On Bridge Day each October you can walk across the New River Gorge Bridgeor jump off. Hundreds of parachutists make the 876-foot [267-meter] leap on the one day it's legal. How much free-fall time is safe? 'You'll hit the water about nine seconds
 - Oman, Camel Race, 1995
- 2001-10-21作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：8 评论：0
- Exploding from the gate, young jockeys spur their mounts in a race outside Muscat. Though gambling is illegal, winners' purses are often hefty, and a top racing camel sold for stud can fetch [U.S.] $130,000 or more. From Oman, May 1995, National Geo
 - Bahrain, Bahrain Welcome, 1994
- 2001-10-22作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：7 评论：0
- Some 15,000 Bahrainis welcomed the arrival of a replica of a British bomber plane during its 1994 London-to-Australia flight.
 - Oman, Veiled Bedouin, 1995
- 2001-10-23作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：12 评论：0
- Veiled to all but her immediate family, a Bedouin woman pauses in her tent near the old inland capital of Nizwa. Bedouin females don the distinctive Omani burqa, or mask, after reaching puberty. From Oman, May 1995, National Geographic magazine
 - Japan, Hiroshima Mourners, 1994
- 2001-10-24作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：10 评论：0
- Mourners gather every August 6 in remembrance of those who died in the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Each year new names are added to a list of those who have died since their exposure to the atomic bomb.
 - Brunei, Mosque Reflection, 1998
- 2001-10-25作者：：Michael S. Yamashita 点击：17 评论：0
- State-owned oil raised the gold domes and granite minarets of Omar Ali Saifuddien mosque in this delta capital and lifted the country's per capita income to among the world's highest. From Crossroads of Asia: South China Sea, December 1998, Nationa
 - California, Prescribed Burn, 1995
- 2001-10-26作者：：Raymond Gehman 点击：8 评论：0
- With a roar of flaming gasoline, forester Jim Carter throws a blaze into desert scrub in southern California. Homes increasingly being built near wildlands are so threatened by fire that 'prescribed burns' are sometimes used as prevention. From The
 - Egypt, Valley of the Kings, 1998
- 2001-10-27作者：：Kenneth Garrett 点击：8 评论：0
- In life they ruled like gods. In death the pharaohs of ancient Egypt's New Kingdom were united with their deities. Decades of excavation in the necropolis near Luxor have turned up treasures like Tutankhamun's gold mask, along with insight into the
 - China, Hong Kong Port, 1998
- 2001-10-28作者：：Michael S. Yamashita 点击：21 评论：0
- Lit up like a show window, a port displays goods risk-taking entrepreneurs sell the world at huge profits. Renewed boom times in the South China Sea will require regional cooperation as much as cutthroat competition. From Crossroads of Asia: South Ch
 - Luxor, Egypt, Temple Hieroglyphs, 1999
- 2001-10-29作者：：Cary Wolinsky 点击：11 评论：0
- Dedicated to the Egyptian god Amun, the mortuary temple of Ramses III, Madinet Habu, towers on the west bank of the Nile. Its elaborate hieroglyphs describe battles with Libyans and invaders called Sea Peoples. To ancient Egyptians writing was a divi
 - Qurna, Egypt, Qurna Bread Maker, 1998
- 2001-10-30作者：：Kenneth Garrett 点击：19 评论：0
- The business of death has always leavened life around the valley. These days, archaeological excavations employ teams of laborers, many of whom live near the necropolis in villages like Qurna, where bread takes shape the old-fashioned way. From Valle
 - Alaska, Antler Bird Perch, 1993
- 2001-10-31作者：：George F. Mobley 点击：14 评论：0
- Where miners once rip-roared [in Alaska's Wrangell Mountains] is now a mother lode of national park land: Visitors to the onetime boomtown of McCarthy are greeted by a swallow perched outside the lodge. From Alaska's Sky-High Wilderness, May 1994,
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