Take a photographic journey across time and the continents! For more than a hundred years, National Geographic writers and photographers have created a unique record of our changing world. This dazzling volume chronicles people and places as they were and as they are today, pairing carefully selected photographs—one vintage, the other contemporary—from our vast archives. Essays and magazine excerpts tell the stories behind the pictures. Organized by continent.

• 304 pages; 245 full-color and duo-tone photographs
• 12'' x 11''
• softcover
• © 1998