From the Texas border to Alaska's coast, from Hollywood to Manhattan, this wonderful book crisscrosses America to create a spectacular panorama. Captured in stunning photos and sparkling prose, here are glittering cities and lonely prairies, majestic rivers and magnificent mountains, along with every kind of human endeavor and accomplishment. Here are firsthand descriptions of the deadly eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 and of the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in 1992. You'll fly with America's sweetheart, Amelia Earhart, alone across the Pacific in the 1930s - and witness man's landing on the moon three decades later. You'll go to powwows with Native Americans, travel the nation with migrant beekeepers. You'll explore every aspect of the American experience. This is at once an illustrated omnibus of one hundred years of life in the United States and an inside look at the classic journal that has chronicled the American century with such an observant and wide-ranging eye. Come with National Geographic - On Assignment USA.
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YAAIn this beautiful book, National Geographic steps away from its traditional role of satiating the vagabond needs of armchair world explorers. On Assignment focuses its cameras only on the United States, and provides a new adventure with every turn of the page. From Alaska to Florida, the stunning photographs provide a portrait in time of a USA undergoing tremendous change. The publisher uses the talents of its incredible staff to celebrate the broad diversity that makes America so great. From Hurricane Andrew to weekly baseball games, this masterpiece of photojournalism chronicles the sorrows and joys of living in this country. Opening its pages will allow readers to explore the Okefenokee Swamp, dance with "Comanche John," climb Mount Hayes, or take hundreds of other adventures. The accompanying essays will provide young adults not only with a source of entertainment, but also a very rich educational experience.AJohn Kiefman, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I have always wanted to know how the people with the best jobs in the world work to produce the best magazine in the world. I'm sure many share the same curiosity - and for those of you, this book is a must-have.Now only if the National Geographic Society could soon produce "National Geographic on Assignment - WORLD".
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