 - Willow Gulch, Utah, Broken Bow, 1999
- 2002-11-01作者：：Sarah Leen 点击：8 评论：0
- "Stars wheel across a nighttime sky, made bright by a long moonlight exposure. Broken Bow Arch, in Willow Gulch, soars over boulders that fall as stress fractures and erosion gradually enlarge the span."
—From the National Geographi
 - Bangladesh, Paddy Walk, 1991
- 2002-11-02作者：：James P. Blair 点击：10 评论：0
- "Passing paddies submerged by monsoon floods, villagers of Nishantapur slog over land that is both enriched and imperiled by the raging waters their nation struggles to tame."
—From "Bangladesh: When the Water Comes," June
 - Bodrum, Turkey, Bodrum Castle, 1986
- 2002-11-03作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：12 评论：0
- "Thorns in his side, the valiant Knights of St. John, occupying the castle of Bodrum on Turkey's Aegean coast, interfered with [Ottoman sultan] Süleyman's control of crucial trade routes and lines of communication. In 1522 he routed them fr
 - Beni Yenni, Algeria, Antique Pin, 1972
- 2002-11-04作者：：Thomas J. Abercrombie 点击：10 评论：0
- "Ornate brooch, a heavy antique pin is offered for $125 in Beni Yenni. The silversmiths of this Kabyle village still use the patient techniques of their ancestors to produce intricate ornaments. Women build up savings accounts by collecting the
 - Vatican City, Ordination Mass, 1985
- 2002-11-05作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：7 评论：0
- "Inside St. Peter's Basilica candidates for priesthood from 22 countries lie prostrate in humility before the high altar as they take their vows during an ordination Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II."
—From "Vatican City,&q
 - Giza, Egypt, Great Sphinx, 1951
- 2002-11-06作者：：J. Baylor Roberts 点击：12 评论：0
- "Since Khafre had it hewed, the Great Sphinx has represented protection for the pharaoh and people of Egypt. Even the powerful Ramses II thought of himself as being enfolded by the colossus. After thousands of years as symbolic protector, the Sp
 - Oregon, Cannon Beach, 1997
- 2002-11-07作者：：Sam Abell 点击：10 评论：0
- "'The grandest and most pleasing prospect which my eyes ever surveyed,' [William] Clark wrote of present-day Oregon's Cannon Beach, uncharacteristically rhapsodizing over its 'romantic appearance.' Here [Meriwether] Lewis set the men to work boi
 - Varanasi, India, Varanasi Pilgrimage, 1996
- 2002-11-08作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：6 评论：0
- "Once in every lifetime an observant Hindu hopes to make a pilgrimage to the holy city of Varanasi. Some come to wash away sickness and sin in the Ganges River. Others bring their dead to be burned. Still others come to live their last days here
 - French Polynesia, Tahiti Resort, 1996
- 2002-11-09作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：7 评论：0
- "With tourism now its main hope for economic self-reliance, French Polynesia must nearly triple its 170,000 visitors a year. One tactic: Attract some of the seven million vacationers Hawaii hosts annually."
(Photograph taken on assignment
 - Kentucky, Shaker Silk, 1989
- 2002-11-10作者：：Sam Abell 点击：8 评论：0
- "In the late 19th century, as the number of brothers declined in relation to sisters, village income became increasingly dependent on women's industries. Some of the silk kerchiefs (right) are from South Union and Pleasant Hill in Kentucky, comm
 - Dhaka, Bangladesh, Turag River Backflip, 1991
- 2002-11-11作者：：James P. Blair 点击：12 评论：0
- "For a luscious break from August temperatures that average 29ºC, a young herder does refreshing backflips off water buffalo taking their daily bath in the Turag River just west of Dhaka. Though waters near the capital are polluted by oils,
 - Panama, Panama Canal, 1998
- 2002-11-12作者：：Frans Lanting 点击：11 评论：0
- "Crippled ark, this island in the Panama Canal was once a hilltop in a vast forest. As the planet's remaining patches of wild land become smaller and more isolated, the number of species they can sustain shrinks."
—From "The Va
 - Italy, Po River Delta, 2001
- 2002-11-13作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：9 评论：0
- "New land born of river sediments adds 200 acres [81 hectares] a year to the fertile Po [River] Delta, which has been drained for cropland since Roman times. Rice fields and hunters' cabins jut into the Adriatic near the Sacca di Scardovari.&quo
 - Algeria, Sahara Dunes, 1972
- 2002-11-14作者：：Thomas J. Abercrombie 点击：7 评论：0
- "Fickle sculptor, the wind each day reshapes Sahara dunes. These 150-foot-high [46-meter-high] waves flow across the Erg Bourarhet region. Sand covers less than a fifth of the vast Sahara; the rest is a harsh world of gravel plains, stark mounta
 - Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Fish Market, 1994
- 2002-11-15作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：5 评论：0
- "[The Tsukiji fish market] is a sprawling, teeming, cacophonous corner of reclaimed land on the edge of Tokyo Bay. Its formal name is the Tokyo Central Wholesale Market, but in Tokyo everybody calls the place Tsukiji (pronounced skee-jee), for t
 - U.S. Plains, Great Plains Buffalo, 1997
- 2002-11-16作者：：Sam Abell 点击：6 评论：0
- "Traveling the breadth of the Great Plains—one of the world's largest grasslands—[Meriwether Lewis and William Clark] saw 'immence herds of Buffaloe, deer, Elk … in every direction feeding on the hills and plains.' Today, fewe
 - Abu Simbel, Egypt, Ramses II Temple, 1983
- 2002-11-17作者：：David S. Boyer 点击：7 评论：0
- "Egypt's monuments stud the Nile in timeless testament to a civilization that endured for three millennia. Proclaiming his power to neighboring Nubians, Ramses II of Dynasty XIX had this huge temple hewn out of rock at Abu Simbel. Today it stand
 - Alaska Range, Handlebar Shot, 1996
- 2002-11-18作者：：Bill Hatcher 点击：5 评论：0
- "A mounted remote-controlled camera captures a biker's-eye view of terrain sweeping past in Lake Clark National Park. Two days from the finish the group experienced some of its best riding as it followed flattened caribou trails. … 'You g
 - Florida Keys, Boundless Biplane, 1997
- 2002-11-19作者：：David Doubilet 点击：11 评论：0
- "From the seat of a biplane a thousand feet [305 meters] above the Florida Keys, the sea seems a boundless place, tranquil but for the froth of breakers on coral reefs and the hues of mingling currents."
—From "Blue Refuges: U.
 - Lemhi County, Idaho, Cattleman, 1993
- 2002-11-20作者：：Joel Sartore 点击：5 评论：0
- "American icon or endangered species? The cattlemen of Lemhi County, Idaho—where Carl Lufkin drives cattle fattened on public land to his employer's ranch—claim to be the human equivalents of the spotted owl. Many guardians of the Ne
 - Nebraska, Buffalo Glare, 1999
- 2002-11-21作者：：Sarah Leen 点击：5 评论：0
- "A bison in northern Nebraska now finds safety from the predation that nearly wiped out his species. This bull on the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge grazes a 19,126-acre [7,740-hectare] sanctuary along with elk, longhorn cattle, deer, an
 - Gizo, Solomon Islands, Allied Scout, 2002
- 2002-11-22作者：：Ted Chamberlain 点击：6 评论：0
- The T-shirt—a gift from a tourist—doesn't lie.
In World War II Eroni Kumana and many other Solomon Islanders served as Allied scouts, patrolling South Pacific waters in dugout canoes. In 1943 he and another guide discovered Lt. John F.
 - Jordan, Al Aqabah Harbor, 1996
- 2002-11-23作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：7 评论：0
- A boat floats in Al Aqabah (Akaba) Harbor, Jordan. On July 6, 1917, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and an Arab guerrilla group captured the Red Sea port of Al Aqabah from the Turks.
 - Oregon, Snake River, 1997
- 2002-11-24作者：：Sam Abell 点击：9 评论：0
- "On October 16, the rushing Snake River brought the expedition into the Columbia [River] at last. The Corps paused at the confluence 'to smoke with the Indians who had collected there in great numbers to view us ... they formed a half circle aro
 - Spain, La Mancha Windmills, 1981
- 2002-11-25作者：：James P. Blair 点击：5 评论：0
- "Windmills tilt at the skies in the historic region of La Mancha, southeast of Toledo, where ventured Miguel de Cervantes' legendary knight, Don Quixote. Cervantes, El Greco, and dramatist Lope de Vega lived in Toledo, adding their art to a city
 - Montana, Pronghorn, 1997
- 2002-11-26作者：：Sam Abell 点击：9 评论：0
- "Montana dusk frames the delicate silhouette of a pronghorn, the antelope [William] Clark admired as 'keenly made...and butifull.' Swift and alert, the animal eluded the [expedition's] flintlocks all across the plains. Clark marveled at its gait
 - Southeastern Oregon, Hay Bales, 1996
- 2002-11-27作者：：Sarah Leen 点击：10 评论：0
- Author William Least Heat-Moon: "This is the Other Oregon, the Big Empty. ... I've spoken with a few people who live in the somewhat sheltered and watered nooks the desert provides here and about. They share above all else a yearning for sparene
 - Oregon, Acosia Red Elk, 1997
- 2002-11-28作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：10 评论：0
- "Some rodeo cowboys are Indians, and the Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon celebrates them with a tepee village where Acosia Red Elk, American Indian Beauty Pageant winner, waits for a parade."
—From “Rodeos: Behind the Chutes,&rdqu
 - Gabon, Gorilla Feeding, 1998
- 2002-11-29作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：5 评论：0
- "At Mpassa, project director Liz Pearson weans infants until they approach bottles only out of curiosity. ... Such care is costly but fosters human-gorilla understanding and helps win crucial support from local villagers."
—From &qu
 - Arequipa, Peru, Plaza De Armas, 1995
- 2002-11-30作者：：Stephen Alvarez 点击：8 评论：0
- A new addition to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage sites, Arequipa's historic center sits before the Andes mountains.
(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Peru's Ice Maiden
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