The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 74National Geographic Society, 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 136
... ground , the sailplane flyers give as well as take . In return for weather maps and forecasts they provide many an odd bit of information about the ways of this all- pervading element , the air . For example , sailplane pilots , using ...
... ground , the sailplane flyers give as well as take . In return for weather maps and forecasts they provide many an odd bit of information about the ways of this all- pervading element , the air . For example , sailplane pilots , using ...
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... ground , however , is only on islands of the West Indies , where it was generally exterminated , soon after the introduction of slaves , by being yanked from its mountain burrows for human food . What the black men missed , the ...
... ground , however , is only on islands of the West Indies , where it was generally exterminated , soon after the introduction of slaves , by being yanked from its mountain burrows for human food . What the black men missed , the ...
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... ground while flying . Obviously this action cannot be photographed . Nor can we follow , with the camera , the strange search of the micro- scopic larva for its host . But an experi- ment proved that these minute larvae go hunting for ...
... ground while flying . Obviously this action cannot be photographed . Nor can we follow , with the camera , the strange search of the micro- scopic larva for its host . But an experi- ment proved that these minute larvae go hunting for ...
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GuamPerch of the China Clippers By MARGARET M HIGGINS | 99 |
Boyhood Recollections and Recent Observations by An American | 419 |
In the Land of Moses and Abraham 25 illustrations in color from natural color photographs | 432 |
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