The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 55National Geographic Society, 1929 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 76
Page 86
... feet . At 10 o'clock one morning we started the real ascent , a steady climb through a great variety of vegetation , in places so dense that we regretted we were not blessed with the prehensile tails of the monkeys about us . The worst ...
... feet . At 10 o'clock one morning we started the real ascent , a steady climb through a great variety of vegetation , in places so dense that we regretted we were not blessed with the prehensile tails of the monkeys about us . The worst ...
Page 652
... feet long , coiled in a large hole in the tree , at a point thirty feet from the ground and about a foot from the ladder . It struck at him as he passed , in the well - known manner of poisonous and of many quite harmless snakes ; but ...
... feet long , coiled in a large hole in the tree , at a point thirty feet from the ground and about a foot from the ladder . It struck at him as he passed , in the well - known manner of poisonous and of many quite harmless snakes ; but ...
Page 770
... feet above the clouds . Of the earth I could now see nothing . " More than a mile above me lay a sec- ond layer of clouds , pierced here and there by sunlight . Soaring thus between a floor and a ceiling of clouds was so marvelous an ...
... feet above the clouds . Of the earth I could now see nothing . " More than a mile above me lay a sec- ond layer of clouds , pierced here and there by sunlight . Soaring thus between a floor and a ceiling of clouds was so marvelous an ...
Contents
JUNE 1929 | 8 |
Adventures in Arizona Color Photography | 29 |
The Volcanoes of Ecuador | 49 |
26 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aconcagua alphabet American animals Apaches Arabic script Argentina Arizona Autochromes by Jacob beauty border boys bridge Buenos Aires camp Canoe Bay Canyon capital cars centuries Chile Chilean Clifton Adams climb clouds coast Color Plate cowboys crater Crete crossed desert Ecuador expedition feet forest Geographic Society Autochromes giant harbor Harriet Chalmers Adams horses houses Inca Indian irrigation island Jacob Gayer jungle Lake land live Málaga Maynard Owen Williams Mexican Mexico miles motor mountain mules Napo NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE National Geographic Society night Nogales pack Pavlof Peru Phoenix Photograph by Clifton plants Quito reached region ride Riobamba River road rocks ruins Sangay Santiago Seville ship side slopes snow South Spain Spanish streets Sumacu tion to-day town trail trees trip Tucson Tungurahua Turkish Turkish alphabet valley village Viña del Mar volcano