02462cam a2200385 i 4500 122813500 TxAuBib 20120118120000.0 230222s1976||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib rda National Geographic: January 1976 : VOL. 149, NO. 1. Life or death for the Harp Seal. January 1976. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 1976. 156 p. : col. ill., PB ; 26 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier National Geographic Contents: In the steps of Moses -- The Chambered Nautilus, Exquisite living fossil -- Stockholm, where quality is a way of life -- Haiti: Beyond mountains, more mountains -- California's parched Oasis, the Owens Valley -- Life or death for the Harp Seal. Where and how did a humble servant of God lead the Israelites on one of history’s most momentous journeys? Harvey Arden and Nathan Benn make a pilgrimage from the Nile to the Promised Land. Distant Los Angeles controls the water of the mountain- walled Owens Valley, leaving it high, dry, and not so happy. Judith and Neil Morgan describe its plight; Jodi Cobb and Galen Rowell photograph it. Survival of species divides alarmed conservationists and hunters whose livelihood depends on harvest of these arctic creatures. Biologist David M. Lavigne reports their numbers seriously declining. Photographs by William R. Curtsinger. Undersea photographer Douglas Faulkner captures in extraordinary color pictures, the rare and mysterious Pacific mollusk whose mobile home is an architectural masterpiece. James Cerruti finds that residents of Sweden’s beautiful but expensive capital city enjoy complaining as they seek a special quality of life. Photographs by Albert Moldvay and Jonathan Blair. Though overpopulation and poverty beset them, the people of that oldest West Indian republic remain remarkably lighthearted, report Carolyn Bennett Patterson and photographer Thomas Nebbia. 20120118. Steps of Moses. Chambered Nautilus. Stockholm. Owens Valley California. Harp Seals. Haiti. National Geographic. TXING