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| Publisher: National Geographic Society
Category: Magazine
List Price: $47.40
Buy New: $34.00
You Save: $13.40 (28%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 40
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005NIOH
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good, but spendy January 6, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Apparently everyone writing reviews is made of money...well if that is the case, let me tell you a little secret: if you go garage sailing you can often find an entire year of NG for like $20. And sometimes it is even a recent year. I say save the trash heaps and the trees, and the green (if you catch my drift) and shop around before you go buying new stuff. It has cool covers, and you can collect them regardless of their condition.
 excellent magazine for lay people June 19, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
National Geographic Magazine is written primarily for theperson with little or no background in Geography. It is not an intense scholarly magazine and , as a Geograohy professor pointed out, tends to be chatty. But, it does give great information on geopgraphy as well as other fields in the Social Sciences even Natural History. There are many articles about people and places around the world and their customs. There are articles on the latest explorations and discoveries. Such as the rediscovery of the Gnostic Gospel of Judas and the oldest tatooed mummy.Zip USA takes a single US Zip Code and describes the customs and practices of the people living within that zip code. There are many interesting articles about people and places in the United States.
I became interested in Geography and Anthropology through reading this magazine. The articles are quite informative and entertaining and the photography is outstanding.
Awesome Magazine! March 19, 2006
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Great Magazine, with in depth articles covering interesting topics around the globe. I pity the fool who does not subscribe to NG
 Ripoff February 4, 2006
61 out of 64 found this review helpful
Don't pay Amazon $34 for this subscription when you can get it directly from National Geographic for $15.
Has this magazine run out of things to write about? February 1, 2006
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
I am 28 years old and I have every issue of this magazine that has been published since I was born (thanks Mom & Dad for the ongoing subscription). It used to be the gold standard of magazines...well, its really a Journal publication.
The photography featured in the magazine is still top notch and beautiful. However, since when did subjects like Cafeine and Stem Cells (both recent cover stories) have anything to do with geography? This magazine used to spin tales of expeditions to far flung lands and interesting tribes and so on. Perhaps its a testament to the fact that we are all becoming more and more globalized and the cultures of the world are becoming more and more homogonized with every passing year, but it seems some of the subject matter as of late is really stretching the scope of the publication.
Second, I recall as a child and adolescent receiving the maps that came with the editions every 3 or 4 months. They would adorn the walls of my bedroom and eventually even my college dorm room. But in the past five years it seems that these fold outs have included things like pictures of dinosaurs, ancient fish, and big elephants.....not so geographical.
I remember reading articles about people summitting mountains and dogsledding to the South Pole and now we get cover stories entitled "Love: The Chemical Reaction"....what?
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