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The bull elk has an unusual way of attracting females. First, he scrapes the ground with his antlers. Then he urinates on the dirt and himself before settling into the mixture. It’s rut season in the Smokies, and this is the elk version of cologne. Naturalist Liz Domingue is delighted. “And he did the whole…
On a dark, frigid winter evening in Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park, I sat snugly in our snowcoach – a 13-passenger vehicle with enormous low-pressure tires specially outfitted for navigating the park’s snowbound roads—watching swirls of snow…
By Teresa Bergen As I enter the Terror Ship, the captain tells me that he and his crew have been marooned here for fifty years and all of them have a terrible virus. I can just…
Texas has never been accused of moderation, and its fair proves the point. Spread across 277 acres of Fair Park, the State Fair of Texas runs 24 days this year, from Sept. 25 through Oct. 18.…
No other city in Southeast Asia has a neighborhood like Hanoi’s Old Quarter. Not Saigon, Not Bangkok. Not Singapore nor Jakarta. Only in Hanoi, Vietnam’s bustling northern capital, are the buildings packed so tightly that even…
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By David DeVoss It was the opening game of the baseball season and the atmosphere…
By David DeVoss It was a beautiful autumn day in 1887 when Mac McGillivray and…
Publisher Indiana University Press | Author Steve Raymer
Reviewed by Caroline Erskine
In the world of publishing, there are some books that fit into the world you inhabit — by work, or simply by life experience. You tend to see those books through the small details that make a life in journalism so interesting. Steve Raymer’s Somewhere West of Lonely: My Life in Pictures is one of those books. Raymer’s career with the National Geographic ran from the early 1970s through the 1990s into the new century — a period sometimes described as the golden years of photojournalism. The magazines had big budgets, pages to fill, and were fiercely competitive. That competition made its way down the food chain to the photographers themselves.The photographers who thrived in that era were driven to tell stories with pictures, to follow the news, to relate the state of humanity. Read More
