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Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photographs

Amazing Gift Book!
National Geographic’s most expansive and sumptuous photography book ever — a celebration of more than a century of collecting and publishing photographs, with remarkable images from around the world. For more than 100 years, National Geographic has set the standard for nature, culture, and wildlife photography. Now, in Through the Lens, 250 spectacular images — some famous, others rarely seen — are gathered in one lavish and beautiful volume.
Through the Lens is divided into geographical regions — Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the Americas, and Oceans and Isles — with a special section devoted to space exploration. Each geographical section features an outstanding array of photographs that exemplifies the area’s unique people, wildlife, archaeology, culture, architecture, and environment, accompanied by brief but informative captions.
From Barry Bishop’s heroic Mount Everest climb in the 1950s to the glorious wildlife of Asia and Africa, from ancient Maya culture to the Afghan girl found 17 years after her piercing green eyes captivated the world, these are some of the finest and most important photographs ever taken. Featuring master photographers from the late 1800s to today, including Frans Lanting, David Doubilet, David Alan Harvey, Jodi Cobb, William Albert Allard, Nick Nichols, and Annie Griffiths Belt, Through the Lens is an extraordinary photographic celebration of some of the greatest the world has to offer.
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Australia welcomes the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display, lighting up Sydney Harbour and the renowned Opera House.

Catching the light and the imagination, the Great Wall snakes along the crests of mountains in China. 

A Bushman of southern Africa enters a trance state and tries to rid a girl of the evil that caused her to hoard meat.

Only women may enter an old fortress on Tarut Island in Saudi Arabia; its walls enclose a spring used for bathing and doing laundry.

A gray wolf savors a fresh kill; this species once was hunted nearly to extinction in the western United States.

Paint still clings to 2,200-year-old terra-cotta soldiers found in the tomb of China's first emperor.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef, actually a group of more than 2,800 reefs, supports a diversity of species rivaled only by that of tropical rain forests.

Off the coast of Cuba, sharks and yellowtail snappers feed on scraps tossed from a dive boat.

Two Japanese macaques, or snow monkeys, while away a cold winter's day in the waters of a hot spring

A hunter and his dogs search the brush for delectable cane rats in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.