China National Geographic Essentials - Illustrated World

Author: Essence of China National Geographic
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Rare landscapes and unique folk customs, lost ancient civilizations and precious cultural relics, mysterious Earth phenomena and bizarre Earth wonders. Here, the multiple extreme beauties of the world converge and collide, creating a symphony poem of nature and culture. The "Illustrated World National Geographic Series" consists of 10 volumes, using vivid text to outline the landscape scroll of the Chinese people and colorful images to tell the geographical symbols of the East and West. With over 1,500 colorful geographical landscapes, more than 4,000 magnificent photographic images, and a 2.6 million-word, 10-volume masterpiece of human geography, it weaves a dreamlike journey through time and space. Thousands of years of prosperity have created a beautiful poem on the Chinese mainland. The desolate Loess Plateau, with its countless ravines, sows the hope of life and comforts the civilizations and sorrows of generations; the Taklamakan Desert, with its crimson flames of water algae, scorches every inch of land, forming an insurmountable life; the Meili Snow Mountain, hidden in the billowing clouds, lets rivers flow beneath its feet, witnessing the changes of the mortal world; the Potala Palace stands tall on the roof of the world, accompanied by the sun and moon, like a mythical hall... In this vibrant and colorful scroll, our unknowns always outnumber our knowns; we always have imagination to be proven. Whether near or far, the truth of nature will not fade because of our ignorance.