National Geographic Magazine - Volume 77 Bound - January-June 1940 Save

Marvellous bound volume containing 6 months' worth of superlative illustrated articles.

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January 1940 (Vol. 77, No. 1)
  • Paris, Home Town of 20 Million Americans (Frederick Simpich; 32 illus., 24 in color)
  • The Miracle of Talking by Telephone (F. Barrows Colton; 20 illus.)
  • Color Camera Explores the Grand Canyon (25 natural-color photographs)
  • Speaking of Norway (Normann Østbye; 24 illus., 16 in color)
February 1940 (Vol. 77, No. 2)
  • The White War in Finland (early Winter War coverage; 28 illus., 20 in color)
  • Finland: Land of Heroes (Alma Luise Olson; 24 illus., 16 in color)
  • Skiing in Finland’s Forests (color plates)
  • Sea Lions of the Pribilofs (Roy Bedichek; 16 illus., 12 in color)
March 1940 (Vol. 77, No. 3)
  • Australia’s 12,000-Mile Island Empire (John Scofield; 40 illus., 32 in color)
  • Adventures with the Irish Elk (paleontology; John E. Pfeiffer)
  • The Great Barrier Reef in Color (16-page color supplement)
April 1940 (Vol. 77, No. 4)
  • Greece and the Greeks (Maynard Owen Williams; 44 illus., 36 in color)
  • Athens: Cradle of Democracy (integrated with above)
  • The Greek Way (color portfolio)
  • Map supplement: Bible Lands and the Cradle of Western Civilization
May 1940 (Vol. 77, No. 5)
  • The Netherlands: Nation at War with the Sea (McFall Kerbey; 36 illus., 28 in color)
  • Holland Rises from the Sea (dikes, polders, windmills)
  • Holland in Wartime (added late coverage of the May 10 German invasion)
  • Color supplement: Flags of the Americas (update)
June 1940 (Vol. 77, No. 6)
  • Belgium: Crossroads of Europe (Bourgeois & Simpich; 40 illus., 32 in color) – published while Belgium was being overrun
  • Brussels: Heart of Belgium
  • Flanders Fields Today (WWI battlefields revisited)
  • The Society’s New Map of Europe and the Mediterranean (updated war edition)
These six issues are among the most dramatic in the magazine’s history: they begin with peacetime travel and end with Europe collapsing into total war.

Please note: the magazines are bound without the yellow-bordered covers (and without supplementary maps and most of the advertising). 

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