The National Geographic Magazine
June 1929, twenty-four pages in full colour, and Owen Lattimore writing up the desert road to Turkestan — a road he had crossed with a camel caravan rather than read about.
⬇ FREE PDF · 194.3 MB — at archive.org ↗Travel & Exploration
For people who could only go by armchair — and for the ones who went.
The National Geographic Magazine
March 1928: sixteen pages of colour, a supplement painted by N. C. Wyeth, and Sir Alan Cobham on what the world looks like from an aeroplane — which in 1928 almost nobody had seen.
⬇ FREE PDF · 170.7 MB — at archive.org ↗The Wide World
“The Magazine for Everybody” — true travel yarns from people who had actually gone. Riders and pack mules climbing a mountain trail on the cover, over the line “The Mysterious Heart of Asia”.
⬇ FREE PDF · 13.3 MBThe National Geographic Magazine
June 1927, fifty cents, the famous oak-leaf border with the contents printed straight onto the front: “Ho for the Soochow Ho”, the geography of China, life afloat, and sixteen pages of illustrations in full colour.
⬇ FREE PDF · 325.3 MB — at archive.org ↗Travel
January 1915: San Diego and its Exposition, Kara-Kum “the tomb of the caravans”, and a colour photograph of a courtyard on the cover — a whole magazine for people who could only go by armchair.
⬇ FREE PDF · 41.1 MB📭 Nothing on this shelf yet — Travel & Exploration is a space we have swept and labelled and not filled. Something will lean up against it soon; in the meantime there are 6 other categories on the 🔧 Useful shelf. ☕
turning the page…
reading on OSSmile · scan courtesy of the Internet Archive
