TY - BOOK ED - National geographic Society TI - Secret Corners of the world PY - 1982/// CY - United State of America PB - National Geographic society KW - geography N1 - Include index N2 - For so many of us, the first glimpse of faraway place came in the pages National Geographic; and this book continues the society traditions of portraying lands and peoples off the beaten tracks of the world . In one instance, it records a land on the eve of calamity : northern Afghanistan for centuries a crossroads of trade and thus of civilization, now close to travelers while Soviet forces confront a bitter resistance ER -