The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 4, April, 1924

Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1924. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. [30 pages of advertisements], pages 357-470, [and 40 pages of advertisements]. Illustrations (sixteen in full color). Map. Cover has some wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900–1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.

This issue includes: The Story and Legends of the Pontine Marshes by Don Gelasio Caetani with 18 Illustrations; Italy, Land of History and Romance 16 Full-Page Illustrations; Ancient Carthage in the Light of Modern Excabation by Bryon Khun de Prorok with 28 Illustrations; Tunisia, Where Sea and Desert Meet by Gervais Courtellemont with 16 Autochromes; Keeping House in Majorca by Phoebe Binney Harnden with 19 Illustrations; Sakurajima, Japan's Greatest Volcanic Eruption by T. A. Jaggar with 33 Illustrations.

Gelasio Caetani (Rome March 7, 1877 – Rome 23 October 1934) was an Italian nobleman and diplomat from the princely Caetani family who rose to fame during the First World War as an army officer and mining engineer. Born in Rome in 1877, Caetani graduated from the Columbia University School of Mines in 1903. He dug gold in Idaho and filled several other mining contracts before founding the firm of Caetani, Burch & Hershey in San Francisco. When Italy entered the First World War, he returned home and joined the Italian army engineers. In April 1916 he led a successful tunnelling attack on an Austro-Hungarian stronghold on top of Col di Lana. , Gelasio Caetani won three decorations for bravery. In 1922, as a supporter of Mussolini, he became Italian ambassador to the United States.

Byron Khun de Prorok (1896–1954, born in Philadelphia as Francis Byron Kuhn) was a Polish-American amateur archaeologist, anthropologist, and author of four heroic travelogues. He has come to be regarded as the original tomb raider, or grave robber, one "loved by audiences and held in contempt by the scientific community". He worked on the excavations at Carthage from 1920 to 1925 and held the Archaeological Institute of America's prestigious Norton Lectureship in 1922–1923.

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863–1931) was a French photographer who was famous for taking color autochromes during World War I. With the outbreak of World War I, Courtellemont returned to his home province to record the war. After the war, Courtellemont began working for an American publication. He eventually became a photographer for National Geographic.

Phoebe Binney Harnden's family decides to buy a house in Deia inspired by M. S. Boyd's book " The Fortunate Isles". They didn't speak a word of Spanish! After two weeks of Spanish studies the son ordered four meat pies but twenty-two arrived the next day! The mistake of numbers was regarded as negligible factor! They talk with great enthusiasm about village life in Deia and describes the local customs like the killing of the family pig. A custom still very much alive.

Thomas Augustus Jaggar, Jr. (January 24, 1871 – January 17, 1953) was an American volcanologist. He founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and directed it from 1912 to 1940.
Condition: Good.

Keywords: National Geographic, Pontine Marshes, Gelasio Caetani; Italy, Carthage, Byron Khun de Prorok, Tunisia, Gervais Courtellemont, Desert, Majorca, Phoebe Binney Harnden, Sakurajima, Japan, Volcanic Eruption, Thomas A. Jaggar

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