“Passing Baluchi traders ignore Bamian’s Little Buddha: The ‘Little Buddha’ is so called because it is nearly 60 feet [18.3 meters] shorter than the ‘Great Buddha.’ Hundreds of shrines and monastic cells were carved in the conglomerate cliff, and for several centuries Bamian was a focus of cultural contacts reaching deep into China, India, and Persia.”
—From “Afghanistan Makes Haste Slowly,” December 1933, National Geographic magazine
“Dedicated to the Egyptian god Amun, the mortuary temple of Ramses III, Madinet Habu, towers on the west bank of the Nile. Its elaborate hieroglyphs describe battles with Libyans and invaders called Sea Peoples. To ancient Egyptians writing was a divine gift from Thoth—scribe of the gods, magical healer, lord of wisdom, and patron of scholars.”
—From "The Power of Writing," August 1999, National Geographic magazine
"Taylor Glacier, its snout reddened by iron, drains into Lake Bonney. Snow and ice collect at higher elevati##被过滤##, but the valleys are as dry as the Gobi desert; temperatures average minus 4 degrees F [-20 degrees C]. The lion of this land, the creature at the top of the food chain, is a bacteria-eating nematode, a microscopic worm that can survive years of being freeze-dried."
—From "Timeless Valleys of the Antarctic Desert," October 1998, National Geographic magazine
"'I have to believe this can change.' So says social worker Marisa Ugarte. She speaks quietly of three boys living in a Mexico shelter, one 12 years old, the other two no more than 15. All had been shuttled between Tijuana and San Diego, California, and prostituted to pedophiles. Ugarte directs the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, a network of 62 U.S. and Mexican organizati##被过滤## fighting trafficking. 'People are beginning to see,' Ugarte says, 'that slavery is still real.'"
—From "21st Century Slaves," September 2003, National Geographic magazine
A small coastal town forms a thin strip of shelter between expanses of land and sea, the sources of the Kaikoura region's two economic kingpins: agriculture and fishing.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Deep Mysteries of Kaikoura Canyon," June 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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