August 11, 2005
High Atlas Mountains, Morocco
1999
Brooks Walker
The High Atlas are some of northern Africa's most remote and forbidding territory. For one ethnic group, the Berbers, these mountains have provided an escape from conquest and assimilation by Arabs and earlier invaders. But life remains hard in this desolate area and families often must rely on money sent from urban relatives to survive.
(Text adapted from "Among the Berbers," January 2005, National Geographic magazine)
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Morocco by Camel," March 2000, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
August 12, 2005
Lanai Island, Hawaii
1996
Jim Richardson
Besides two resort enclaves, an airport, and a centrally located little village, the rest of the 13-by-18-mile (21-by-29-kilometer) island of Lanai is virtually deserted, just miles of open grasslands, rare dryland forests, and unpeopled Pacific coast.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hiding Away in Lanai," January/February 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
August 13, 2005
New South Wales, Australia
1968
Winfield Parks
A mob of Merino sheep grazes on Brian Thompson's 9,978-acre (4,038-hectare) ranch in New South Wales, Australia. Five hands and their dogs help Thompson manage 14,000 sheep and 800 cattle.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic Book Australia, 1968)
August 14, 2005
Mumbai (Bombay), India
2004
William Albert Allard
As the sun sets, preparations get underway to shoot a scene at Film City, a vast Mumbai (Bombay) film studio complex. Running three hours or more, Bollywood films mix extravagant MTV-style musical numbers with plots rich in intrigue and romance.
India's film industry is the biggest in the world, producing more films and drawing a larger worldwide audience than Hollywood.
—Text adapted from and photograph published in, "Welcome to Bollywood," February 2005, National Geographic magazine
August 15, 2005
Josselin, Brittany Region, France
1988
Jodi Cobb
Looming in a bedroom window, Josselin Castle in the French province of Brittany stands as a monument to nearly a thousand years of history. First built in the 12th century as a fortress, the castle named for the son of the architect who designed it as demolished by English invaders soon after it was completed. It took more than three centuries to rebuild, and ever since its reconstruction it has been owned by the same family, whose patriarch holds the title of Duc de Rohan.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Village," July 1989, National Geographic magazine)
August 16, 2005
Clifton, South Africa
1996
Steve McCurry
The seaside resort of Clifton, near Cape Town, hugs the western slope of Table Mountain. One of Cape Town's most famous sights is the "tablecloth," a flat, white mantle of cloud that forms over the top of the mountain when moisture-laden air from the southeast rises and condenses. Its edges billow down the mountainsides like steam cascading over the edge of a cauldron.
(Text adapted from and photograph published in, "The Fairest Cape," March/April 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
August 17, 2005
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
1997
Raymond Gehman
One of Utah's threatened prairie dogs pokes through the snow. Decades of determined eradication by federal, state, and local governments, wipeouts from flea-borne plague, recreational shooting, and habitat destruction have left prairie dogs a pale presence. Biologists estimate that five billion prairie dogs populated the western plains at the turn of the century.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Vanishing Prairie Dog," April 1998, National Geographic magazine)
August 18, 2005
Oak Alley, Vacherie, Louisiana
1977
James L. Stanfield
"Oak Alley, luminous pink pillars gleaming under an arch of oaks near Vacherie, Louisiana, welcomes sightseers by road or riverboat. Sugarcane still grows here梐nd pecan trees, the grafting pioneered by a slave gardener."
From the National Geographic book Visiting our Past: America's Historylands, 1977
August 19, 2005
Kashmir, Asia
1998
Steve McCurry
Mountains reflecting off the serene Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir, appear to engulf two fishermen. Srinagar is said to have been founded by the Buddhist Emperor Ashoka during the third century B.C. Water is Srinagar's signature—Dal Lake, the Jhelum River, and a looping canal that joins the two effectively make an island of the city's busiest section.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kashmir: Trapped in Conflict," September 1999, National Geographic magazine)
August 20, 2005
United Kingdom
1992
Sam Abell
Hay bales loom over a U.K. field. Encouraged by 20th-century governments that wanted a Britain self-sufficient in food, farmers drained their ponds and marshes and created single-crop fields. Within two decades much of eastern England became a wheat-field prairie.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hedgerows," September 1993, National Geographic magazine)
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