National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 134, No. 4, October, 1968

[20 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 445-592, [and 12 pages of advertisements with some color]. Illustrations (many in color). Map. Special Supplement: Archeological Map of Middle America IS NOT PRESENT. Some folding pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.This issue includes: A Teen-ager Sails the World Alone by Robin Lee Graham; Mexico's New Museum, Window on the Past by Bart McDowell and R. Anthony Stewart; Great Smokies National Park Solitude for Millions by Gordon Young and James L. Amos, Journey into Golden Greece and Rome by Melville Bell Grosvenor; and Antarctica: Icy Testing Ground for Space by Samuel W. Matthews and Robert W. Madden.Robin Lee Graham (born March 5, 1949) is an American sailor. He set out to sail around the world alone as a teenager in the summer of 1965. National Geographic Magazine ( Oct. '68, April '69, Oct. '70) carried the story, and he co-wrote a book, titled Dove, detailing his journey. Before beginning his around-the-world journey. At the age of sixteen, he started out heading west in his 24-foot sloop. He married along the way and, after almost five years, ended his journey in Los Angeles instead of finishing his around-the-world journey where he started in Hawaii. Graham's book about his voyage, Dove, was published in 1972. His voyage was depicted in a film, The Dove (1974). A follow-up book, Home Is The Sailor, was published in 1983.Bart McDowell was a writer and senior editor at the National Geographic Magazine, where he worked for 32 years. B. Anthony Stewart joined the National Geographic in 1927 as a photo lab bookkeeper, but came to the attention of National Geographic chairman Gil Grosvenor as a talented photographer. Until he retired in 1969, he was always a staff photographer. His work epitomizes the early days of documentary photography. He used all of the emerging photographic technologies but his technique came from an earlier era and he took painstaking efforts to set up every detail in a photograph so composition was perfect. When in July 1959 National Geographic decided to break its nearly century long policy of not having photographs on its cover, it was a patriotic image shot by Stewart that was chosen to launch its series of the world's most recognized magazine covers.Gordon Young served the U.S. Army in Korea, obtained a B.S. at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, then moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand to work for the U.S. Government. There he also did field collecting for museums, founded the now famous Chiang Mai Zoo with his father, and compiled the first significant informal ethnographic study of Thailand's northern hill tribe peoples. Naturalist-hunter-ethnologist, Young's life has spanned some forty years in South and Southeast Asia. Jim Amos was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan in a musical family. He studied photography and photographic technology at Rochester Institute of Technology and then worked for Eastman Kodak Company. In 1967 he left Kodak to become a freelance photographer, which led to a twenty-six year career making photographs for Nat. …