CLASSIC MAGAZINES and JOURNALS

No. 2: THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Continuing a special Compost series on some of the world's most interesting and influential publications.

These are in no particular order, and the number does not represent a ranking of any kind.

While a huge number of publications are issued by clubs and societies, few are on such a scale as the National Geographic. The National Geographic is rare in being almost the definition of it's parent society.

Early issues are noted for having practically no internal images, being a journal of a technical nature. With time, its pupularity ballooned through the combination of a less esoteric content, more of a 'travelogue' feel, and of course (even though initially black and white) the photographs.

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WIKIPEDIA: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A COMMUNAL APPROACH to BOOKS

Our world seems to be becoming an ever-more mobile and jet-setting one. It is clear that few of us are as able as we once might have been to retain a large library, much as we might love to.

Here we have some ideas for book swaps - a great way to cut back on your books (your beloved books: cutting back is something we usually need to do and seldom want to do). Books need to be in circulation as money is. Now, money is cool and all that, but it's better than books only in so far as you can survive in a direct way through it: books, although generally vegetable, are inedible. Also, you can use it to buy more books!

With the establishment of a local and regular bookswap, there can be a river of books flowing somewhere near your door, and you don't even need to spend a single penny! It's merely a matter of dropping your line into it for a while and seeing which random and interesting reading material you can fish up, and sooner or later, throw back in! (Terrible metaphor, I know, but fitting enough.)

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THE COMPOST: INDEX and LINKS section