VOLUME 1
GEOGRAPHIC
MAGAZINE
NOVEMBER, 1928
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CONTENTS
Special Color Supplement, ‘‘Map of Discovery—Eastern
Hemisphere’’
By N.C. WYETH
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‘SIXTEEN PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR
The World's Greatest Overland Explorer
With 55 Ihistrations J, R. HILDEBRAND
Venice, Home City of Marco Polo
8 Full-page Illustrations
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Life ‘mong the Lamas of Choni
With 35 Illustrations: JOSEPH F. ROCK
Demon Dancers and Butter Gods of Choni
16 Full-page Iilustrations in Color
Fame's Eternal Camping Ground
With 19 Tiustrations ENOCH A. CHASE
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PUBLISHED BY THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
HUBBARD MEMORIAL HALL
WASHINGTON, D.C,
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purchased ordinary vacuum cleaners. from
the first salesman who appeared. Without
iovestigation. Without comparison.
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action an their own rugs. They distover the
difference between “Positive Agitativa’
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is unmistakable,
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without first seeing The Hoover,
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facturers.
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cleaner which embodies
Positive Agitation,” thecleaning principle
which enables The Hoover to remove from
rugs and carpets more dirt pee meaute than
other cleaner.
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cnce in home cleanliness this Hoover super~
cleaning means, when you consider that
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IN Novemper, 1928
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MAGAZINIE
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THE WORLD'S
GREATEST OVERLAND
EXPLORER
How Marco Polo Penetrated Farthest Asia, “‘ Discovered”
Many Lands Unknown to Europe, and Added
Numerous Minerals, Animals, Birds, and
Plants to Man's Knowledge
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HEIRS, surely, was the strangest
| home-coming i exploration his-
tory.
They stepped ashore in Venice ope tate
afternoon in the nineties—the nineties of
jth century—a bedraguled, weather=
trio, in queer, coarse garments.
‘Their faces were leathery and bronzed,
searched perhapis; hy. trapic. sm, yet
scarred as if they had been frosthitten,
toa.
‘The older men seemed listless and their
eyes were dull, perhaps from seeing too
the youinigest was the striking fiy-
|. busliy-haired, bkick-biearded,
alert 19 ever
Hatchty. beatiful Venice, be observed,
was Tittle chéinged, even after 24
He led the way across. the stately
There were the four huge horses from
Stamboul, the marble = from Acre
amid the: Doge's regal P then they
passed the gorgeous shops af the silkmak-
ers, the rainbow assortments of the glass-
workers;and the booths, with their precious
stones, their polished ivories, and their
keen, slender swords with the bejeweled
hi
heir nostrils and their cars also knew
Venice, Pungent spice odors gave aro
matic reminder of new commerce in dh
fant parts now avgmenting the city's
staple trade in salt and silks, Diverse
merchant ships from three continents
stirred ihe faint, familiar lapping of the
water along the canals, and, crowning
touich, there wwas a war galley ready to ptt
out for the inevitable foray upan Genoa.
A queer trio, hnt they attracted little
fore aitention than would an alien to-day
on Galata Bridge. Indeed, they rubbed
elbows with sleek Spaniard, swarthy Mus-
eovite, kilted Seot, and Gere, frowning
Tinlyart
UNRECOGNIZED NY THE SERVANTS
Blasé, sophisticated Venice! Tt knew
its “world”: it saw ships from every port:
its wools, and silks, and saffron, and oils
went to every fairy yet it-was about to
have n-whole new. world thrast upon its
attention!