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Contents JANUARY 1991 NORTHWEST AUSTRALIA THE MYSTICAL FACES OF NORTHWEST AUSTRALIA: LAND & SEA A photographic portfolio JOURNEY INTO DREAMTIME By Harvey Arden, with photographs by Sam Abell THE SEA BEYOND THE OUTBACK By Rodney Fox, with photographs by David Doubilet MASTERS OF TRADITIONAL ARTS By Marjorie Hunt and Boris Weintraub, with photographs by David Alan Harvey National Heritage Fellows are honored PATAGONIA PUMA: THE LORD OF LAND’S END Text and photographs by William L. Franklin A National Geographic Society research project STALKING THE WORLD’S EPIDEMICS—THE DISEASE DETECTIVES By Peter Jaret, with photographs by Matthew Naythons and Stuart Franklin (MAGNUM) FEBRUARY 1991 MIDDLE EAST; STATES IN TURMOIL—double supplement map MOTHER RUSSIA ON A NEW COURSE By Mike Edwards, with photographs by Steve Raymer ALLIES IN THE DEEP By Anatoly Sagalevitch, with photographs by Emory Kristof Americans join Soviet scientists in pioneering submersible missions HARVEST OF CHANGE By William S. Ellis, with photographs by Sarah Leen (MaTRIX) Urbanization challenges agriculture in California’s Central Valley IN MEMORIAM: THOMAS W. McKNEW AND MELVIN M. PAYNE By Gilbert M. Grosvenor THE ELOQUENT SURMA OF ETHIOPIA Text and photographs by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher HONG KONG HONG KONG—COUNTDOWN TO 1997 By Ross Terrill, with photographs by Jodi Cobb PLIGHT OF THE BOAT PEOPLE Photographs by Jodi Cobb, with text by Larry Kohl MARCH 1991 DISPATCHES FROM EASTERN EUROPE By Tad Szulc, with photographs by Tomasz Tomaszewski CHARTING THE SPLENDORS OF LECHUGUILLA CAVE By Tim Cahill, with photographs by Michael Nichols (MAGNUM) MONTREAL: SPIRITED HEART OF FRENCH CANADA By Douglas B. Lee, with photographs by Sisse Brimberg QUEBEC, The Making of Canada Series—double supplement map EYE TO EYE WITH THE GIANT OCTOPUS 86 Text and photographs by Fred Bavendam ALONG THE SANTA FE TRAIL 98 By Rowe Findley, with photographs by Bruce Dale DERE ERPAIRED VERGE Bee BES PI FE 0.55 ones ccncesthcssoserssecoegeusvaceesennnsenousees 124 By Berge Ousland APRIL 1991 RAMSES THE GREAT By Rick Gore, with photographs by O. Louis Mazzatenta COMPUTER REBUILDS THE ANCIENT SPHINX By Mark Lehner ee re ee I i iii ixeiccerasnis creidibeenncectisninecnsidateecssaccacseneiieismen es By David Lamb, with photographs by William Albert Allard Minor-league baseball enjoys a comeback THE WORLD’S FOOD SUPPLY AT RISK By Robert E. Rhoades, with photographs by Lynn Johnson (BLACK FALCON RESCUE Text and photographs by Galen Rowell EXTREMADURA: CRADLE OF CONQUERORS. ........c.cccsseosesssesescesencserssenss By Thomas J. Abercrombie, with photographs by Bruno Barbey (MAGNUM) MAY 1991 ELEPHANTS—OUT OF TIME, OUT OF SPACE By Douglas H. Chadwick EYEWITNESS TO AN ELEPHANT WAKE By Dereck Joubert, with photographs by Beverly Joubert CHICAGO: WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORMOOD ........ccccccsssevecescscescessoeees By Richard Conniff, with photographs by Bruce Davidson (MAGNUM) ae Pee BOY BONY CRIN oi cs sicinsarararsocesensnivercersessccesuesuscenesess By Bruce W. Bunting, with photographs by James L. Stanfield IRAQ: CRUCIBLE OF CIVILIZATION By Merle Severy ee ee ee I bck vnacknchianisantnnseeupeesicuinitideendginadiecmesecioes By William L. Rathje, with photographs by Louie Psihoyos JUNE 1991 WATER AND THE WEST: THE COLORADO RIVER AGE-OLD CHALLENGE: WATER AND THE WEST An introduction by Bruce Babbitt THE COLORADO: A RIVER DRAINED DRY By Jim Carrier, with photographs by Jim Richardson (WEST LIGHT) EAST EUROPE’S DARK DAWN By Jon Thompson, with photographs by James Nachtwey (MAGNUM) SECRETS OF ANIMAL NAVIGATION By Michael E. Long, with photographs by James L. Amos THE WONDERLAND OF LEWIS CARROLL By Cathy Newman, with photographs by Sam Abell BATS—THE CACTUS CONNECTION Text and photographs by Merlin D. Tuttle A National Geographic Society research project