National Geographic marks 125 years
A young male polar bear investigates a camera trap, Svalbard, 2009.
This image is one of scores of incredible photographs featured in National Geographic magazine's "Around the World in 125 Years" - a three-volume set of some of the publication's best photography, including many never-before-seen pictures, published by Taschen.
Easter Island
Marshall Islands
Egypt
South Georgia Island
New Mexico
Thailand
California
Italy
Antarctica
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Russia
India
South Carolina
Civil rights leader Esau Jenkins rallies underprivileged youngsters on John's Island, offshore Charleston, with the call "Look upward, do something better!"
Jenkins, who died shortly after this photograph was taken , founded schools and programs to fight illiteracy among the island's Gullah people, as the local African Americans are called.
Vatican City
India
Fiji
Once mariners steered clear of such Fijian Islands as the Mamanucas, volcanic peaks here seen rising out of the sea in the archipelago's western reaches, because these were the "Cannibal Isles." Today, however, visitors flock to Fiji, one of the leading tourist destinations in the South Pacific.
Lebanon
A shepherd leading his charges down a busy Rue Georges Picot epitomizes the contrast often encountered in mid-20th-century Beirut: He wears Arab garb but also a Western-style jacket, 1957.
Michigan
Sitting behind his revolving camera tray and holding his flashgun, pioneering wildlife photographer George Shiras demonstrates how, gliding silently by canoe over midnight lakes, he would approach and photograph wild animals along the shores. Michigan, 1893.
Saudi Arabia
Mexico
California
Red Tomahawk
Red Tomahawk, a famous American Indian warrior, ca. 1913.