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10 picks · 1951–1966

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EVEN THE CROCODILE AND THE HYENA
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about East Africa National Parks and their inmates. An african animal that has been loathed and feared almost as much as the hyena, and …

BORROWED LIGHT
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip to the Antarctic. Description of the McMurdo camp and the Pole and Byrd stations where more than a thousand men are going …

THE GALVANIZED-IRON ROOF
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey in Nigeria. Port Harcourt, on the Niger River, displays forcibly the combination of the primitive and the very modern, of…

THE TEMPLESOF THE NILE
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey up the Nile to Aswan the site of the new dam; about the ancient temples, monuments, tombs that will be flooded by the …

TO THE BEGINNINGS OF MEMORY,
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey in Africa, along the Nile River from its beginnings in Lake Victoria, to Khartoum, in the Sudan. The excursion was made …

A DROP INTO THE STONE AGE
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey to Lake Rudolf, which lies betw. Kenya & Uganda, & passing through Karamoja, a corner of northwestern Uganda. The area is…

THE LOVERS UPON THE WALLS.
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Ajanta Caves, in Hyderabad, Ind. which contain the loveliest & probably the most important collection of Buddhist wall …

THE GREAT BARRIER REEF.
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Great Barrier Reef, along the northeastern coast of Australia. The Reef and sea betw. it and the mainland is dotted with 600 …

THE DREAMING
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Northern Territory of Australia. There is a well-founded tradition of violece in the North. From the first, the violence of the…

THE ANGEL IN MAY
profiles ·

PROFILE of Angelo Poliziano, 15th-century poet, & favorite at the court of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Tells about his life & work; about the de Medici …