Description
Contents: Smithsonian Horizons, Letters to the Editor, Object at Hand, Phenomena, Comment and Notes, Picture Credits, 1492 America: The Land Columbus Never Saw (A fanciful, cross-country flight reveals sophisticated human societies – and animals in unexpected places), The Testimony of Thomas Eakins (The artist’s papers shed light on the passions that haunt his paintings and shocked his contemporaries), ‘You Plan Your Shipping Trips With the Tides’ (For tenacious. water-loving liveaboards, their boat is their castle year-round – in spite of frozen shampoo), With Lighthawk, Seeing is Believing (Thanks to this unique flying service, scientists and lawmakers get a new perspective on the environments), From Italy, A Breathtaking Bowl of Stars (Celestial myths of ancient Greece enliven cosmic carrography in a little-known Renaissance masterpiece), Cookbooks, or How to Bake a Best-Seller (To 4 parts recipes add household hints. Fold in history laced with travel tidbits. Publish. Serves millions), Getting ’em Hooked on the Bard (Shakespeare & Company, led by Tina Parker, reaches, performs – and inspires – directly from his gutsy texts), The Private Life of Madam Chatterly (A household naturalist discovers a world of trouble outside her window when she spies on a red squirrel), A Disquieting Visit to the Canal Zone (The author, who grew up in the former U.S. enclave in Panama, recalls a “super-American” way of life), Book Reviews, Additional Reading, November Events at the Smithsonian, Smithsonian Seminars and Expeditions
Issue: November 1991
Condition: Very Good