Alan Moorehead
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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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Ajanta Caves, in Hyderabad, Ind. which contain the loveliest & probably the most important collection of Buddhist wall …
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 …
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…
PROFILE of Angelo Poliziano, 15th-century poet, & favorite at the court of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Tells about his life & work; about the de Medici …