A naked boy stands at the turquoise blue edge of the South Pacific in French Polynesia. This island paradise is a haven for European tourists, but its natives have long been troubled with feelings of antipathy over 150 years of French rule.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "French Polynesia: Charting a New Course," June 1997, National Geographic magazine)
A mountain lion peers out from a rocky nook in Yellowstone National Park. Demonized by farmers and ranchers, mountain lions were almost hunted out of existence until substantial research in the 1960s helped dispel fears about these mysterious big cats which are in fact more likely to run up a tree than attack a human.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Learning to Live with Mountain Lions," July 1992, National Geographic magazine)
Twilight illuminates the snow-covered grounds of a Universalist Church in Yarmouth, Maine.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Character Marks the Coast of Maine,” June 1968, National Geographic magazine)
星光照耀下的雪地（普教主义教堂）
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1979
Photograph by David Alan Harvey
A lone evergreen in a snowy expanse of Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park waits to see whether the sun will emerge from the thick morning fog.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Grand Teton—A Winter’s Tale,” July 1979, National Geographic magazine)
一颗孤独的常青树挺立在怀俄明的Grand Teton国家公园的雪色旷野上，等着看太阳能否破浓雾而出
St. Anne, Martinique, 1980
Photograph by Michael Yada
A boy’s silhouetted figure walks along a pier as volcanic mountains rise against a mauve-colored sky in St. Anne, Martinique. A French overseas department, this 425-square-mile (1,100-square-kilometer) Caribbean island boasts ruggedly beautiful landscapes and a legacy of Carib indigenous warriors so fierce that 16th-century Spanish conquistadores decided against trying to colonize it.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, “The Caribbean: Sun, Sea, and Seething,” February 1980, National Geographic magazine)
马提尼克岛[拉丁美洲]的圣安尼。背景是若干火山
Poland, 1987
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
Niedzica Castle rises behind a hydroelectric dam, still under construction in this photograph, on Poland’s Dunajec River. The castle, originally built in the 14th century, once overlooked the Dunajec Breach, a five-mile-long (eight-kilometer-long) gorge flanked by towering rock walls. Now, it oversees tranquil Czorsztyn Lake, formed when the controversial dam was completed in 1994.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Poland: The Hope That Never Dies," January, 1988, National Geographic magazine)
A belt of snow-spotted lava beds stretches across 568,342 acres (230,000 hectares) of Mount Edziza Provincial Park in northwest British Columbia. The park is a spectacular volcanic wilderness of lava flows, basalt plateaus, cinder fields and cones formed from eruptions and basalt flows that occurred between 10,000 and 4 million years ago.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Canada’s Wilderness Land, 1982)
A bird soars over the lichen-draped remains of Manorbier Castle in Wales. At its height in the 12th century, the castle consisted of a gatehouse, a keep, two towers, and a vaulted chapel enclosed within two high stone curtain walls. Originally built as a fortified manor house, this medieval castle never encountered attack, which is why it remains remarkably well-preserved today.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Discovering Britain and Ireland, 1985)
威尔士的Manorbier城堡。 因没有遭遇战火而保存完好。
Oman, 1992
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
Telephone poles and oil rigs stand silhouetted against an orange-tinted evening sky in Oman. Oman was once considered an Arabian Peninsula backwater, with only about six miles (3 kilometers) of paved roads as recently as 1970. Oil production, however, which began around 1967, quickly catapulted this sultanate of 3 million inhabitants to unimaginable prosperity.
阿曼。电线杆与石油钻塔。阿曼曾经是阿拉伯半岛的死水，1970年不过3公里公路。
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, Oman, May 1995, National Geographic magazine)
哈哈哈哈 O(∩_∩)O哈哈~ 好久不来了，不小心看了一眼自己主页，发现自动关联了自己以往发过的帖，点进这个看了一眼，笑个半死。。。敢情我当初还发过这么搞笑的东西啊，我自己完全不记得了 
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