| ANIMALS and BIRDS (see also Animals with people; and Horses) | |
| Baboons from the Pumphouse Gang, focus of study in Kenya by Shirley Strum | Ref:MKAFC281 |
| Bunnies in boots: small playful rabbits, not exactly wild | Ref:MKANM29 |
| Cheetah orphan on rescue duty, Kenya | Ref:MKAFM24 |
| Cheetahs, poised and perfect, Kenya | Ref:MKAFC37 |
| Sungilded crocodile on the Rufiji river bank, Tanzania | Ref:MKAFC283 |
| Egrets cluster on a dead tree | Ref:MKAFC280 |
| Elephant at Amboseli, Mount Kilimanjaro behind | Ref:MKAFC288 |
| Elephant among palms, Selous, Tanzania | Ref:MKAFC38 |
| River crossing for a Selous elephant | Ref:MKAFC39 |
| Wistful lowland gorilla in Loango Park's Evengue island rehabilitation project, Gabon | Ref:MKAFC455 |
| A western lowland gorilla silverback in Loango Park's Evengue island rehabilitation project, Gabon | Ref:MKAFC456 |
| Orphaned gorilla in Evaro Village, Gabon | Ref:MKAFC454 |
| Chimpanzee orphan frolics with a young gorilla in Evaro Village, Gabon | Ref:MKAFC453 |
| On the dirt floor of an Indian home in Peru guinea pigs share space with the family | Ref:MKPUC357 |
| In the high plateau, or altiplano, in Peru flocks of woolly llamas, alpacas and sheep graze freely | Ref:MKPUC360 |
| Condors fly in the dramatic Colca canyon near Arequipa in Peru, 200 km long and more than a thousand meters deep | Ref:MKPUC371 |
| Huatzins are among a rich birdlife at Lake Sandoval in the Tambopata National Reserve, Peru | Ref:MKPUC338 |
| Giant tortoise (Seychelles) | Ref:MKSEC313 |
| Booby (Seychelles) | Ref:MKSEC317 |
| Fairy tern fledgeling (Seychelles) | Ref:MKEEC156 |
| Fairy tern (Seychelles) | Ref:MKSEC319 |
| Sooty tern (Seychelles) | Ref:MKSEC315 |
| Sooty terns (Seychelles) | Ref:MKSEC314 |
| Shearwaters (Seychelles) | Ref:MKSEC316 |
| Tropic bird fledgeling (Seychelles) | Ref:MKSEC318 |
| Black paradise flycatcher (Seychelles) | Ref:MKSEC320 |
| Flamingoes at Lake Nakuru, Kenya | Ref:MKAFC277 |
| Flamingoes on the wing, Kenya | Ref:MKAFC278 |
| Flamingoes and other waterbirds feed at sunset | Ref:MKAFC279 |
| Giraffe group with young, Tanzania | Ref:MKAFC286 |
| Fairy tale, a newborn giraffe, Kenya | Ref:MKEEC157 |
| Giraffe: two pairs | Ref:MKAFC287 |
| Hippopotamus, two large rumps, Uganda | Ref:MKAFC282 |
| Hyena in long grass, Kenya | Ref:MKAFC284 |
| Impalas, tailend view | Ref:MKAFC285 |
| Lion in the rain | Ref:MKAFM101 |
| Lion guards his kill, Tanzania | Ref:MKAF276 |
| Ostriches, dancers on a plain, Serengeti, Tanzania | Ref:MKAFC36 |
| Ostrich at full throttle | Ref:MKAFM25 |
| Oxen in headpad yokes, Portugal | Ref:MKPTM78 |
| Swallowtail,Selous, Tanzania | Ref:MKAFC40 |
| Velvet mite,Selous | Ref:MKAFC41 |
| Wildebeest in the rain | Ref:MKAFC33 |
| Wildebeest migration,Serengeti | Ref:MKAFC32 |
| Zebras,Amboseli, Kenya | Ref:MKAFC34 |
| Zebras under an African sky | Ref:MKAFC35 |
| Zoo panda with bowl, China | Ref:MKCHC119 |
| Sleeping swan (Lisbon) | Ref:MKEEC137 |
| ANIMALS WITH PEOPLE | |
| Betty Leslie Melville with the Rothschild giraffe,Marlon(1977) | Ref:MKAFM26 |
| George Adamson at Kora(1976) | Ref:MKAFM27 |
| A carer walks an orphaned chimpanzee and gorillas at Evaro Village, Gabon | Ref:MKAFC452 |
| Elephant orphans protected by a Keeper, a parasol and, through Daphne Sheldrick, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (Kenya,2003) | Ref:MKAFC296 |
| A Quechua woman poses near Cusco, Peru, with a tasselled alpaca, llamas and sheep | Ref:MKPUC352 |
| Hugging a not-so-light llama a Quechua woman in Peru poses with a small flock of woolly animals | Ref:MKPUC353 |
| In Peru a Quechua woman, her children, llamas and a sheep | Ref:MKPUC358 |
| On the outskirts of Cusco, Peru, a Quechua mother, her baby, her llama, her llama's baby | Ref:MKPUC359 |
| Alentejo shepherd, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC224 |
| Campinos (herdsmen), Ribatejo, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC66 |
| Camel safari from the Desert Rose lodge in northern Kenya's Samburu country | Ref:MKAFC297 |
| Camels and young herder at an Ogaden waterhole | Ref:MKAFC293 |
| Cavaleiro and bull, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC64 |
| Boy with fruitbat (Seychelles) | Ref:MKSEC312 |
| Hauling in a meia-lua,half moon, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC59 |
| Maasai and lion,Ngorongoro, Tanzania | Ref:MKAFC30 |
| Ostrich parade, Kenya | Ref:MKAFM28 |
| Shepherd, Spain | Ref:MKSPC85 |
| A roadside cattle drive in Tocantins, Brazil | Ref:MKBRTOC242 |
| Mules in Datong, China, draw a heavily laden cart of coal from nearby coal mines | Ref:MKCHC451 |
| ARCHITECTURE and ART | |
| for more Chicago buildings, civic art and sculpture see the CHICAGO specific list below | Ref:MKUSC383 |
| The city of Jerusalem, dominated by the great walled expanse of Temple Mount | Ref:MKISC412 |
| In Jerusalem's Old City a golden dome shines among the minarets and towers, walls, churches and bazaars that enrich a devout, if divided, society | Ref:MKISC411 |
| Housing the Dead Sea scrolls, the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem's Israel Museum alludes in its striking architecture to the themes of Darkness and Light | Ref:MKISC413 |
| Almourol castle,Tagus river, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC53 |
| Superb colonial architecture (1730) graces the Torre Tagle Palace in Lima, today housing Peru's Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Ref:MKPUC325 |
| Forecourt of the Torre Tagle Palace in Lima, built 1730, today housing Peru's Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Ref:MKPUC326 |
| Beira doorway, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC45 |
| Belém tower, Lisbon, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC47 |
| Discoveries monument, Belém, Lisbon, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC225 |
| Camões, poet on a prow, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC58 |
| Chimney, Algarve, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC62 |
| Convent window, Tomar, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC54 |
| Expo tower and cableway, Lisbon, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC122 |
| Brasília's Metropolitana cathedral and belfry | Ref:MKBRASC229 |
| Brasília's exceptional architecture inspires a new hotel | Ref:MKBRASC231 |
| Open University for the Environment, Curitiba,Brazil | Ref:MKBRCUC166 |
| Ópera de Arame, Curitiba,Brazil | Ref:MKBRCUC164 |
| In the sculpture gardens of Francisco Brennand, Recife, Brazil | Ref:MKBREC236 |
| Adam and Eve in the gardens of Recife artist Francisco Brennand, Brazil | Ref:MKBREC237 |
| Brazil's Romana Dias with some of her spiritual art in Natividade, Tocantins, Brazil | Ref:MKBRTOC246 |
| Architectural contrasts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Ref:MKBRIO175 |
| The Great Wall,China | Ref:MKCHC118 |
| Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain | Ref:MKSPC83 |
| Loulé house, Algarve, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC44 |
| Monsanto, village of boulders, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC52 |
| Oaxaca, Mexico--Contemporary Art Museum | Ref:MKMXC181 |
| Oaxaca, Mexico--Monte Albán, Zapotec city-state | Ref:MKMXC198 |
| Oaxaca, Mexico--Rodolfo Morales in his Ocotlán studio shortly before his death in 2001 | Ref:MKMXC203 |
| Oaxaca, Mexico--Painted pillars in the Ocotlán studio of Rodolfo Morales | Ref:MKMXC204 |
| Oaxaca, Mexico--mural in the governor's palace by Arturo García Bustos | Ref:MKMXC184 |
| Oaxaca, Mexico--Santo Domingo church | Ref:MKMXC180 |
| Oaxaca, Mexico--'Tree' decorated ceiling,Santo Domingo church | Ref:MKMXC205 |
| Oriente station, Lisbon, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC121 |
| Solar de Mateus, Vila Real, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC56 |
| tiles,Palácio Fronteira, Lisbon, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC57 |
| Torre do Tombo, archives, Lisbon | Ref:MKPTC49 |
| Vasco da Gama bridge,Tagus river,Lisbon | Ref:MKPTC120 |
| City housing, 1984, in the heavily-populated Chinese city of Chongqing | Ref:MKCHC450 |
| BOATS | |
| (Arab Dhows) Silhouette with furled sails | Ref:MKADC87 |
| (Arab Dhows) In a heaving sea | Ref:MKADC96 |
| (Arab Dhows) Wind-filled sail, a calm sea | Ref:MKADC97 |
| (Arab Dhows) Twilight of the Arab dhow | Ref:MKADC98 |
| (Arab Dhows) The great sail rises | Ref:MKADC88 |
| (Arab Dhows) Halyard purchase block | Ref:MKADC89 |
| (Arab Dhows) Nahoda and scimitar sail | Ref:MKADC90 |
| (Arab Dhows) Sailors on the rigging | Ref:MKADC91 |
| (Arab Dhows) Praying towards Mecca | Ref:MKADC92 |
| (Arab Dhows) Small figure, large sail | Ref:MKADC93 |
| (Arab Dhows) Beached dhow, Mombasa | Ref:MKADC94 |
| (Arab Dhows) At sea, high in the water | Ref:MKADC95 |
| Nyali beach and coral reef on Kenya's glorious coast | Ref:MKAFC298 |
| Small dhows race at Zanzibar | Ref:MKAFC294 |
| Stacked to dry, fishermen's reed boats (caballitos de totora) in Huanchaco, Peru | Ref:MKPUC336 |
| On the Madre de Dios river in Peru, an Amazon tributary, a riverboat waits at Puerto Maldonado, regional capital and headquarters for NGO groups working on rainforest conservation | Ref:MKPUC337 |
| Elegant reedboats are still to be found on Lake Titicaca, Peru--the puma stemhead a symbol of ancient mythology; for practical purposes most fishermen use wooden craft | Ref:MKPUC362 |
| Intriguing sight on Lake Titicaca, Peru--the M.S.Yavari, a 19th-century British-built gunboat, a museum-ship with an enthralling history | Ref:MKPUC363 |
| Camões, poet on a prow, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC58 |
| Fishermen's beach, Algarve, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC60 |
| Hauling in a meia-lua, half moon, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC59 |
| Ku-omboka: a flood plain tradition, Zambia | Ref:MKAFM8 |
| South China sea | Ref:MKMCC133 |
| Surfing on a Ghana beach | Ref:MKAFC99 |
| Yangtze gorge, China | Ref:MKCHC102 |
| Yangtze old boat, China | Ref:MKCHC103 |
| Yangtze new boat, China | Ref:MKCHC104 |
| Yangtze river rowers, China | Ref:MKCHC105 |
| Yangtze boatman, China | Ref:MKCHC106 |
| Yangtze riverbank, China | Ref:MKCHC107 |
| Riverbank mine, China | Ref:MKCHC108 |
| BRAZIL | |
| Brasília's Metropolitana cathedral and belfry | Ref:MKBRASC229 |
| Brasília by night | Ref:MKBRASC230 |
| Brasília's exceptional architecture inspires a new hotel | Ref:MKBRASC231 |
| In Brasília, young fans watch volleyball | Ref:MKBRASC232 |
| 'Surface subway' public transportation,Curitiba | Ref:MKBRCUC158 |
| Ligeirinho--'speedy bus',Curitiba | Ref:MKBRCUC159 |
| City bus stop,Curitiba | Ref:MKBRCUC160 |
| Green city,Curitiba | Ref:MKBRCUC161 |
| Botanical gardens,Curitiba | Ref:MKBRCUC162 |
| Cambio Verde, green exchange,Curitiba | Ref:MKBRCUC163 |
| Ópera de Arame ('wire' theatre),Curitiba | Ref:MKBRCUC164 |
| Ukrainian memorial,Curitiba | Ref:MKBRCUC165 |
| Open University of the Environment,Curitiba | Ref:MKBRCUC166 |
| Recife, Pernambuco: Avenida Boa Viagem | Ref:MKBREC233 |
| Recife's Praia Boa Viagem, still a playground at dusk | Ref:MKBREC234 |
| Recife's Carmo church in the old town | Ref:MKBREC235 |
| In the sculpture gardens of Francisco Brennand, Recife | Ref:MKBREC236 |
| Adam and Eve in the gardens of Recife artist Francisco Brennand | Ref:MKBREC237 |
| Xingó, Chesf's newest dam on the São Francisco river | Ref:MKBREC238 |
| Corcovado mountain and statue of Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO167 |
| Statue of Liberty in replica in Barra, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO169 |
| From Tijuca forest, view over Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO170 |
| Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO171 |
| Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO172 |
| Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO173 |
| Ipanema dawn--Pedra dos Dois Irmãos, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO174 |
| Architectural contrasts, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO175 |
| Fiscal Island, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO176 |
| Sitio Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro | Ref:MKBRIO177 |
| The town centre of Santa Rita do Sapucaí--Brazil's Electronics Valley; the nation's first technical electronics school was opened here in 1950 | Ref:MKBRSRC254 |
| Santa Rita do Sapucaí's new town built on modern communications engineering and enterprise is framed by hills green with a traditional crop, coffee | Ref:MKBRSRC255 |
| Santa Rita do Sapucaí's new suburbs in 'Electronics Valley' | Ref:MKBRSRC256 |
| Santa Rita mayor Jefferson Gonçalves Mendes: his small city beat more than 90 others to win in 2002 an entrepreneurial award | Ref:MKBRSRC257 |
| Inatel in Santa Rita do Sapucaí is Brazil's leading telecommunications institute; out of class two students catch up on studies | Ref:MKBRSRC258 |
| The hills framing Santa Rita attract champion paragliders | Ref:MKBRSRC259 |
| Téa Yumi, paragliding enthusiast, delights in Santa Rita do Sapucaí's perfect conditions | Ref:MKBRSRC260 |
| Tocantins, created 1989, is Brazil's youngest state. Monuments honour pioneers and rebels in the young capital, Palmas | Ref:MKBRTOC239 |
| In the new state of Tocantins, it's party night as the capital, Palmas, celebrates its 13th birthday (May 2002) | Ref:MKBRTOC240 |
| Kart racing in Palmas, Tocantins; before the day's last laps a young driver crosses himself | Ref:MKBRTOC241 |
| A vaqueiro takes advantage of a road for a cattle drive in the great spaces of Tocantins | Ref:MKBRTOC242 |
| Two friends passing the time in Taquaruçu, a village in a Tocantins valley of waterfalls | Ref:MKBRTOC243 |
| A new dam approaches completion (May 2002) on the Tocantins river | Ref:MKBRTOC244 |
| In Natividade, Tocantins, Portuguese dwellings are a reminder of the colonial era | Ref:MKBRTOC245 |
| Romana Dias with
some of her spiritual art in Natividade, Tocantins | Ref:MKBRTOC246 |
| Sandstone hills in the 34,000 square-km environmentally protected Jalapão in eastern Tocantins | Ref:MKBRTOC247 |
| A spectacular waterfall, Cachoeira da Velha, a notable sight in Jalapão, Tocantins | Ref:MKBRTOC248 |
| From Jalapão's low bush and sandstone hills a sudden dune rises to a surprising height | Ref:MKBRTOC249 |
| Not uninhabited, environmentally protected Jalapão has a few resident landowners; one is the hardworking Vicente Bibianni | Ref:MKBRTOC250 |
| Jalapão's 'cerrado' landscape is rich in birdlife, animals and flowering plants--this one from the tropaeolum family | Ref:MKBRTOC251 |
| The flower popularly known as jalapão from which the 34,000-km protected area in eastern Tocantins takes its name | Ref:MKBRTOC252 |
| Camile wears a Jalapão hat made from capim dourado; women weave the golden grasses into a variety of handicrafts | Ref:MKBRTOC253 |
| CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC | |
| Emperor Bokassa is crowned (1977) | Ref:MKAFC17 |
| Bokassa--the emperor is pleased | Ref:MKAFC18 |
| Unwilling marchers in the coronation parade | Ref:MKAFC19 |
| Carapace (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC153 |
| CHICAGO | |
| The John Hancock building, once the world's tallest, looms black above the gothic-rococo Old Water Tower | Ref:MKUSC383 |
| 333 West Wacker Drive--reflections complement the building's curve | Ref:MKUSC384 |
| Mixed styles where Michigan Avenue meets Wacker Drive | Ref:MKUSC385 |
| The 1920s Wrigley Building, associated with chewing gum, at dusk | Ref:MKUSC386 |
| The east Chicago river looking inland with its back to Lake Michigan | Ref:MKUSC387 |
| The Navy Pier at the mouth of the Chicago River | Ref:MKUSC388 |
| A Navy Pier attraction--an eyecatching ferris wheel | Ref:MKUSC389 |
| For footsore tourists a trolley service eases sightseeing | Ref:MKUSC390 |
| Lake Michigan from the Navy Pier | Ref:MKUSC391 |
| The Eurodollar pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's busiest futures markets | Ref:MKUSC392 |
| What's on at the Opera--Chicago, famous for the blues, is rich in every kind of music | Ref:MKUSC393 |
| Sara Paretsky, author of exceptional works of crime fiction and creator of Chicago sleuth V.I. (Victoria) Warshawski | Ref:MKUSC394 |
| Barack Obama, elected to the U.S Senate in November 2004 | Ref:MKUSC395 |
| The Chicago Art Institute, among Chicago's most hallowed institutions | Ref:MKUSC396 |
| Clean lines and glass, as in the gleaming Swissôtel, feature predominantly in Chicago's new and striking architecture | Ref:MKUSC397 |
| The Jay Pritzker Pavilion within the Millennium Park by architect Frank Gehry | Ref:MKUSC398 |
| A dynamic feature of the Millennium Park is the walk-through Cloud Gate sculpture by Anish Kapoor | Ref:MKUSC399 |
| Faces that smile and spout water on two towering glass blocks form the Millennium Park's eyecatching Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa | Ref:MKUSC400 |
|
Joan Miró's singular style is displayed in a slender downtown sculpture | Ref:MKUSC401 |
| Louise Nevelson's leggy sculpture enhances a city forecourt | Ref:MKUSC402 |
|
Jean Dubuffet's contribution to Chicago's civic art--Monument with Standing Beast | Ref:MKUSC403 |
| Henry Moore's mushroom-capped sculpture beside a Chicago University student dorm marks the site where Enrico Fermi inaugurated the atomic age on 2 December 1942 with the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear chain and reactor | Ref:MKUSC404 |
|
The home and studio in Chicago's Oak Park neighborhood of celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright between 1889 and 1909 | Ref:MKUSC405 |
| Chicago's famous skyline in the hazy distance beyond the golden sands of the 31st Street lakeshore beach | Ref:MKUSC406 |
|
Ivy-covered walls in the University of Chicago quad provide a suitably academic tone to relaxed study beside Botany Pond | Ref:MKUSC407 |
| A city style combining function and ornament at the junction of Chicago Avenue and Michigan Avenue | Ref:MKUSC408 |
|
In the Chicago Place Food Court the decor theme is Chicago's own cherished skyline | Ref:MKUSC409 |
| The Cubs signify national league baseball; a car numberplate proclaims sporting power, pride and passion | Ref:MKUSC410 |
| CHILDREN | |
| A class of yeshiva boys (Jewish seminary students) crosses the huge plaza beside the Western Wall | Ref:MKISC414 |
| As dusk falls on the Western Wall, sacred to Jews, a playful boy waits for his father | Ref:MKISC415 |
| A small boy adds his own pile of stones to a sacred place of memorials, Peru | Ref:MKPUC379 |
| Children from a Sacred Valley hamlet shyly tender tourist handicrafts | Ref:MKPUC347 |
| Children, Cascais, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC69 |
| 'Day of the Boys', Trás-os-Montes, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC68 |
| Camels and young herder at an Ogaden waterhole | Ref:MKAFC293 |
| Dinka boy tending cattle, Sudan | Ref:MKAFC13 |
| Fetching firewood, Kenya | Ref:MKAFM9 |
| Fisherman's daughter, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC70 |
| Generations: a Koro Koro elder and his grandson, Kenya | Ref:MKAFM4 |
| Grandmother and child, China | Ref:MKCHC115 |
| Mother and child, dressed for church, Mexico | Ref:MKMXC197 |
| Mother and daughter head for the fair, Viana do Castelo, Portugal | Ref:MKPTC228 |
| Schoolchildren, Shanghai | Ref:MKCHC113 |
| Small girl, looking composed, Seychelles | Ref:MKSEC81 |
| Children rafting in shallows, Seychelles | Ref:MKSEC308 |
| Children with grandmother, Seychelles | Ref:MKSEC306 |
| Surfing on a Ghana beach | Ref:MKAFC99 |
| Surprised and welcoming faces | Ref:MKAFM100 |
| Tending the baby and the store, Macau | Ref:MKMCC129 |
| Totally feminine: toning the skin, Djibouti | Ref:MKAFC10 |
| Tutsi girl survives conflict | Ref:MKAFM1 |
| Visiting Xian, China | Ref:MKCHC117 |
| Youth parade, China | Ref:MKCHC114 |
| CHINA | |
| Yangtze gorge | Ref:MKCHC102 |
| Yangtze old boat | Ref:MKCHC103 |
| Yangtze new boat | Ref:MKCHC104 |
| Yangtze river rowers | Ref:MKCHC105 |
| Yangtze boatman | Ref:MKCHC106 |
| Yangtze riverbank | Ref:MKCHC107 |
| Riverbank mine | Ref:MKCHC108 |
| Guilin river | Ref:MKCHC109 |
| Guilin ricefield | Ref:MKCHC110 |
| Beijing mask | Ref:MKCHC111 |
| Tienanmen Square | Ref:MKCHC112 |
| Schoolchildren, Shanghai | Ref:MKCHC113 |
| Youth parade | Ref:MKCHC114 |
| Grandmother and child | Ref:MKCHC115 |
| Card game | Ref:MKCHC116 |
| Visiting Xian | Ref:MKCHC117 |
| The Great Wall | Ref:MKCHC118 |
| Zoo panda with bowl | Ref:MKCHC119 |
| Chongqing city above the pre-dammed Yangtze river in 1984 | Ref:MKCHC449 |
| Residential housing in the city of Chongqing, 1984 | Ref:MKCHC450 |
| In Datong, Shanxi province, near coal mines. mules draw a heavily laden cart of coal | Ref:MKCHC451 |
| CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of | |
|
Mercenaries, a menace in a divided Congo (1968) | Ref:MKAFM261 |
| In what was Zaire, and is now again the Congo, a statue of Belgium's barbarous Leopold II, removed 1971 | Ref:MKOSM214 |
| Statue of explorer Henry Morton Stanley removed 1971 from the banks of the Congo river | Ref:MKOSM215 |
| DJIBOUTI | |
| Djibouti desert | Ref:MKAFC11 |
| Lake Assal, Djibouti, hottest place on earth | Ref:MKAFC290 |
| Lake Abbé, Djibouti, with its lime outcrops | Ref:MKAFC291 |
| Dramatic landscape where desert rises to hills | Ref:MKAFC292 |
| Totally feminine: toning the skin | Ref:MKAFC10 |
| Second face (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC152 |
| ETHIOPIA | |
| Famine | Ref:MKAFM6 |
| Haile Selassie,empire fading | Ref:MKAFM20 |
| Haile Selassie, an empire lost (1974) | Ref:MKAFM6 |
| Camels and young herder at an Ogaden waterhole | Ref:MKAFC293 |
| Ogaden sunset | Ref:MKAFC43 |
| hyping (e&eo): farmers pose with elderly rifles | Ref:MKEEC139 |
| e&eo: EXTRUDING & EXTRANEOUS OBJECTS | |
| Overloaded (Nairobi) | Ref:MKEEC134 |
| Incommoded (Kenya) | Ref:MKEEC135 |
| Hunters gone (Limuru, Kenya) | Ref:MKEEC136 |
| Sleeping swan (Lisbon) | Ref:MKEEC137 |
| Piping (Kenya) | Ref:MKEEC138 |
| Hyping (Ethiopia) | Ref:MKEEC139 |
| Bust enhancing (Kenya) | Ref:MKEEC140 |
| Lusty dancing (Uganda) | Ref:MKEEC141 |
| Size matters (southern Sudan) | Ref:MKEEC142 |
| Soul matters (Khartoum) | Ref:MKEEC143 |
| Hydrant posed | Ref:MKEEC144 |
| Pump exposed (Uganda) | Ref:MKEEC145 |
| Bear drying (Lisbon) | Ref:MKEEC146 |
| Bull spying (Spain) | Ref:MKEEC147 |
| Stork abstraction (Kenya) | Ref:MKEEC148 |
| Stupefaction (Portugal) | Ref:MKEEC149 |
| Chimney shaft (Portugal) | Ref:MKEEC150 |
| Golden craft (Ghana) | Ref:MKEEC151 |
| Second face (Djibouti) | Ref:MKEEC152 |
| Carapace (Central African Republic) | Ref:MKEEC153 |
| Ascending relished (Orange County, USA) | Ref:MKEEC154 |
| Descending embellished (Hyatt Hotel, USA) | Ref:MKEEC155 |
| Fairy tern (Seychelles) | Ref:MKEEC156 |
| Fairy tale (Kenya) | Ref:MKEEC157 |
| FLOWERS, TREES, PLANTS | |
| Almond Blossom,Algarve | Ref:MKPTC73 |
| In Brazil, Jalapão's 'cerrado' landscape is rich in birdlife, animals and flowering plants--this one from the tropaeolum family | Ref:MKBRTOC251 |
| The flower popularly known as jalapão from which the 34,000-km protected area in eastern Tocantins, Brazil, takes its name | Ref:MKBRTOC252 |
| Baobab, Kenya | Ref:MKAFC42 |
| Caesalpinia pulcherrima (or aigrette), Seychelles | Ref:MKSEC311 |
| Peony, Portugal | Ref:MKFLC74 |
| Steeply terraced vineyards, Douro | Ref:MKPTC226 |
| Sitio Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil | Ref:MKBRIO177 |
| GHANA | |
| Asantahene acclaimed | Ref:MKAFC15 |
| Enstoolment ceremony | Ref:MKAFC16 |
| Shirley Temple Black, United States ambassador to Ghana (1975) | Ref:MKAFM264 |
| Surfing on a Ghana beach | Ref:MKAFC99 |
| Golden craft (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC151 |
| HORSES (and mules) | |
| Campinos (herdsmen), Ribatejo | Ref:MKPTC66 |
| Cavaleiro and bull | Ref:MKPTC64 |
| Lusitano stallion,national stud | Ref:MKPTC67 |
| Mule cart,Algarve | Ref:MKPTC63 |
| Ploughing and sowing,Algarve | Ref:MKPTC77 |
| School of Equestrian Arts | Ref:MKPTC65 |
| A roadside cattle drive in Tocantins, Brazil | Ref:MKBRTOC242 |
| ISRAEL | |
| The city of Jerusalem, dominated by the great walled expanse of Temple Mount | Ref:MKISC412 |
| In Jerusalem's Old City a golden dome shines among the minarets and towers, walls, churches and bazaars that enrich a devout, if divided, society | Ref:MKISC411 |
| Housing the Dead Sea scrolls, the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem's Israel Museum alludes in its striking architecture to the themes of Darkness and Light | Ref:MKISC413 |
| A class of yeshiva boys (Jewish seminary students) crosses the huge plaza beside the Western Wall | Ref:MKISC414 |
| As dusk falls on the Western Wall, sacred to Jews, a playful boy waits for his father | Ref:MKISC415 |
| Jews gather at the holiest of all Jewish places, the Western Wall--once part of the walls surrounding the Second Temple, destroyed by Romans in 70CE (or AD) | Ref:MKISC416 |
| Jewish women pray at the Western Wall, their section separated from the men's by a simple fence | Ref:MKISC417 |
| Its significance entirely secular, a building wall in Jerusalem displays a cheerful mural; an Orthodox Jew, in the habitual black hat and coat, crosses the street | Ref:MKISC418 |
| In Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market piles of peppers provide a mere glimpse of the market's spectacular colour and variety | Ref:MKISC420 |
| Men concentrate on play, taking pleasure in the game and the company | Ref:MKISC421 |
| Tel Aviv, sophisticated and businesslike, can also boast of its dazzling Mediterranean beaches | Ref:MKISC422 |
| Along Tel Aviv's sunny shore cluster smart hotels and office buildings; a children's playground provides a dynamic contrast | Ref:MKISC425 |
| From Jaffa's old town and harbour Tel Aviv grew and spread; today they are the two faces of a single city distinguished as a UNESCO heritage site | Ref:MKISC424 |
| On the Tel Aviv boardwalk, two styles of dress--Orthodox Jew in black, man in shorts flashing an orange anti-disengagement streamer; in mid-2005 hardliners opposed the evacuation of Jewish settlers from Gaza | Ref:MKISC423 |
| A section (in 2005) of the controversial security fence built by the Israel government to guard Israeli citizens from terrorist attack | Ref:MKISC419 |
| A lively corner of walled Akko (or Acre), almost concealing a green-domed mosque. In its long history Akko has been fortress, prison, harbour and more | Ref:MKISC426 |
| From Akko's tiny Mediterranean port, fishing boats supply townsfolk and a host of restaurants | Ref:MKISC427 |
| Caesarea still displays the skills and building frenzy of the renowned Herod, a long aqueduct only one example | Ref:MKISC428 |
| Nahef, an Arab village in lower Galilee, is well situated above olive groves in the Bet-Hakerem valley | Ref:MKISC429 |
| In a lovely landscape, villages including Rama have Camon mountain as splendid backdrop | Ref:MKISC430 |
| There's no escape from bigger cities' hard sell even in a small inland village. The billboard, in Arabic and Hebrew, promotes the Mega supermarket chain | Ref:MKISC446 |
| The Sea of Galilee, the red rooftops of a Greek Orthodox Church: a setting close to Capernaum with its links to the Primacy of Saint Peter | Ref:MKISC431 |
| Within the 'sacred triangle', in a reconstructed church built on a 5th-century Byzantine site, a beautiful mosaic records the miracle of the loaves and fishes | Ref:MKISC432 |
| In Capernaum a modern church spans the ruins of a 5th-century church on a site believed to have been the house of Saint Peter | Ref:MKISC433 |
| Corinthian columns in Capernaum form part of a synagogue built on the black basalt foundations of an even older synagogue | Ref:MKISC434 |
| The tomb in Tiberias of Maimonedes, the great 12th- century polymath. Here, he is better known as Rambam--Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon | Ref:MKISC435 |
| In Nazareth, a holy shrine for Christian pilgrims is the Basilica of the Annunciation, built in 1969 on the site believed to be the home of Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus | Ref:MKISC436 |
| Contemporary Nazareth, in no way pastoral, is a thriving, predominantly Arab city of little architectural distinction | Ref:MKISC437 |
| In the 400-acre archaeological site of Bet She'an are extraordinary ruins, largely Byzantine and Roman, of an ancient city whose splendours include a theatre, bathhouses, long colonnaded streets and fine mosaics | Ref:MKISC438 |
| The Golan Heights Winery: a range of quality wines is produced from grapes grown on several vineyards across the fertile slopes of the Golan Heights, land captured from Syria in 1967. | Ref:MKISC439 |
| At the Ein Gedi field school on the shores of the Dead Sea, Israel began its first nature study in 1959. Virtually tame ibex wander freely | Ref:MKISC440 |
| On the great plateau of Masada beside the Dead Sea, ruins of a mighty citadel recall the saga of 967 heroic Jewish zealots who, facing defeat by Roman legionnaires, preferred death to slavery | Ref:MKISC444 |
| Plastering oneself with beneficial mud is a singular attraction at Mineral Beach, a Dead Sea resort. An all-white Venus smiles through the black coating | Ref:MKISC441 |
| The Dead Sea, some 400-m below sea level and so salty that wise bathers float face up, has an allure for all visitors in its waters, its views, its health-giving air and minerals | Ref:MKISC442 |
| From the calm (and diminishing) waters of the salty lake the Dead Sea Works company extracts important commercial minerals including potash | Ref:MKISC443 |
| In all its variety Israel is unforgettably a Biblical landscape. In the stark, salt-striated region of Mount Sodom stands a solitary pillar signifying Lot's wife | Ref:MKISC445 |
| KENYA (see also e&eo) | |
| Betty Leslie Melville with the Rothschild giraffe,Marlon(1977) | Ref:MKAFM26 |
| Daphne Sheldrick and her daughter Angela (Nairobi,2003). Since the 1960s Daphne has reared more than 40 orphaned elephants | Ref:MKAFC295 |
| Elephant orphans protected by a Keeper, a parasol and, through Daphne Sheldrick, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (2003) | Ref:MKAFC296 |
| Richard Leakey with Australopithecus and '1470' (1978) | Ref:MKAFM271 |
| '1470', the hominid skull found by Richard Leakey's team known by its Museum number | Ref:MKAFC272 |
| Cheetah orphan on rescue duty | Ref:MKAFM24 |
| Cheetahs, poised and perfect | Ref:MKAFC37 |
| Dignity defies poverty in a Nairobi street | Ref:MKAFM5 |
| Fetching firewood | Ref:MKAFM9 |
| Generations: a Koro Koro elder and his grandson | Ref:MKAFM4 |
| George Adamson at Kora(1976) | Ref:MKAFM27 |
| George and Joy Adamson (1970) | Ref:MKAFM270 |
| Princess Anne with Nairobi schoolboys watching football (1971) | Ref:MKAFM266 |
| Time magazine 'Man of the Year', Willy Brandt, West German chancellor, on holiday in Kenya (1971) | Ref:MKAFM263 |
| Michaela Denis in fake fur wrap (1968) | Ref:MKAFM269 |
| Hugh Hefner and 'Playboy' Bunnies on safari (1970) (1968) | Ref:MKAFM267 |
| Jewelled beauty | Ref:MKAFM3 |
| Jomo Kenyatta, in University Chancellor robes(1971) | Ref:MKAFM22 |
| Kipchoge Keino, first of the great athletes, at a local meet | Ref:MKAFM273 |
| Henry Kissinger in Nairobi (1976) | Ref:MKAFM265 |
| Wilfred Thesiger and Gavin Young (at left) in Nairobi (1979) | Ref:MKAFM268 |
| Ostrich parade | Ref:MKAFM28 |
| Zebras, Amboseli | Ref:MKAFC34 |
| Kenya, 1968, an Asian exodus enforced through quotas; at Nairobi airport | Ref:MKOSM217 |
| Nairobi airport, 1968, a barred gate enforces control during the exodus of British Asians | Ref:MKOSM218 |
| Kenya, 1968, a former businessman driven to despair by quotas imposed on British Asians | Ref:MKOSM219 |
| Nairobi, 1968, elderly parents hold a voucher to enter Britain; their daugher does not. | Ref:MKOSM220 |
| Nairobi, 1968, an elderly man waits for social services' assistance | Ref:MKOSM221 |
| Nairobi railway station, 1972--Uganda's Idi Amin has ordered 50,000 Asians to leave. Departing, many are beaten up. | Ref:MKOSM222 |
| Nairobi railway station, 1972--a sad farewell to relatives forced by Idi Amin to leave Uganda. | Ref:MKOSM223 |
| MACAU | |
| A-Ma temple | Ref:MKMCC132 |
| Drug store sign | Ref:MKMCC126 |
| Façade--St. Paul's church | Ref:MKMCC123 |
| Fruitseller | Ref:MKMCC127 |
| Hotel Lisboa--old landmark and casino | Ref:MKMCC130 |
| Living above the shop | Ref:MKMCC125 |
| Old town fish shop | Ref:MKMCC128 |
| Old town street | Ref:MKMCC124 |
| South China sea | Ref:MKMCC133 |
| Taipa bridge | Ref:MKMCC131 |
| Tending the baby and the store | Ref:MKMCC129 |
| MEXICO | |
| Oaxaca street | Ref:MKMXC179 |
| Santo Domingo church,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC180 |
| 'Tree' decorated ceiling,Santo Domingo,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC205 |
| Contemporary Art Museum,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC181 |
| Camino Real hotel,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC182 |
| La Soledad church,side entrance,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC183 |
| Mural in the Governor's palace,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC184 |
| Selling crafts in the Zócalo,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC185 |
| Shoeshine time in the Zócalo,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC186 |
| Carved figures in Mano Mágica,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC187 |
| Petitions for the release of the detained,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC188 |
| Peaceful demo for better government,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC189 |
| Stickers proclaim a historic discontent,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC190 |
| A dot.com campaign poster,Oaxaca, for Vicente Fox--who was
sworn in as president in December 2000. | Ref:MKMXC191 |
| Old buses sustain Oaxaca's transport system | Ref:MKMXC192 |
| Pilgrimage procession in a Oaxaca church | Ref:MKMXC193 |
| People across cultures,Oaxaca | Ref:MKMXC194 |
| Football at Cuilapan de Guerrero | Ref:MKMXC195 |
| Dominican abbey, Cuilapan de Guerrero | Ref:MKMXC196 |
| Mother and child, dressed for church | Ref:MKMXC197 |
| Monte Albán, Zapotec city-state | Ref:MKMXC198 |
| Pre-Hispanic carved stone at Monte Albán | Ref:MKMXC199 |
| Ocotlán market displays embroidered dresses | Ref:MKMXC200 |
| Couple shopping,Ocotlán | Ref:MKMXC178 |
| Ocotlán's crowded weekly market | Ref:MKMXC201 |
| Ocotlán's fancifully painted church | Ref:MKMXC202 |
| Rodolfo Morales in his Ocotlán studio shortly before his death in 2001 | Ref:MKMXC203 |
| Painted pillars in the Ocotlán studio of Rodolfo Morales | Ref:MKMXC204 |
| ON SHOW | |
| Detainees held at Wha Wha,1965, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) | Ref:MKOSM206 |
| Street scene, 1966, in Salisbury, Rhodesia, now Harare, Zimbabwe | Ref:MKOSM207 |
| 11 November 1965, unilateral independence is declared by radio in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) | Ref:MKOSM208 |
| 11 November 1965, watchful police in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) | Ref:MKOSM209 |
| Government House garden party, 1966, Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) | Ref:MKOSM210 |
| Uganda,1967, 'comedy act' during anniversary celebrations | Ref:MKOSM211 |
| Uganda, 1967, prison service playacting during anniversary celebrations | Ref:MKOSM212 |
| Uganda,1967, street parade during anniversary celebrations | Ref:MKOSM213 |
| In what was Zaire, and is now again the Congo, a statue of Belgium's barbarous Leopold II, removed 1971 | Ref:MKOSM214 |
| Statue of explorer Henry Morton Stanley removed 1971 from the banks of the Congo river | Ref:MKOSM215 |
| Capetown, South Africa,l975,empire builder Cecil Rhodes | Ref:MKOSM216 |
| Kenya, 1968, an Asian exodus enforced through quotas; at Nairobi airport | Ref:MKOSM217 |
| Nairobi airport, 1968, a barred gate enforces control during the exodus of British Asians | Ref:MKOSM218 |
| Kenya, 1968, a former businessman driven to despair by quotas imposed on British Asians | Ref:MKOSM219 |
| Nairobi, 1968, elderly parents hold a voucher to enter Britain; their daugher does not. | Ref:MKOSM220 |
| Nairobi, 1968, an elderly man waits for social services' assistance | Ref:MKOSM221 |
| Nairobi railway station, 1972--Uganda's Idi Amin has ordered 50,000 Asians to leave. Departing, many are beaten up. | Ref:MKOSM222 |
| Nairobi railway station, 1972--a sad farewell to relatives forced by Idi Amin to leave Uganda. | Ref:MKOSM223 |
| PERU | |
| Seashore apartments in Lima's Miraflores district provide a prosperous setting for the people's sport--football | Ref:MKPUC321 |
| The presidential palace in Lima's Plaza Mayor | Ref:MKPUC322 |
| A Spanish-style wooden balcony adorns a building in Lima's Plaza Mayor | Ref:MKPUC323 |
| Refreshment in reflection--Lima's Cordano bar | Ref:MKPUC324 |
| Superb colonial architecture (1730) graces the Torre Tagle Palace in Lima, today housing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Ref:MKPUC325 |
| The elegant forecourt of the Torre Tagle Palace in Lima, built 1730, today housing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Ref:MKPUC326 |
| The retable of the chapel within the Torre Tagle Palace in Lima (1730), today housing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Ref:MKPUC327 |
| In Lima's Barranco district Mari Solari has built up a remarkable collection of Peru's folk art. Her enthralment with Peru's culture includes owning a Peruvian hairless dog | Ref:MKPUC381 |
| A broad-ranging collection of Peruvian folk art is to be seen at Mari Solari's house-museum and shop in Lima's Barranco district | Ref:MKPUC382 |
| National museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipán in Lambayeque: a dazzling restoration of Moche tombs, treasure and artifacts that looters missed | Ref:MKPUC328 |
| At Túcume, near Chiclayo, 26 sunken flat-topped pyramids date to cultures after A.D.700. From a sacred (purgatorial) hill there's an allover view | Ref:MKPUC329 |
| A peaceful demo in Trujillo's main square; popular protests are a commonplace in Peru | Ref:MKPUC330 |
| A glimpse of Chan Chán, the Chimú capital (A.D.1100-1450) near Trujillo; it is the world's largest adobe city | Ref:MKPUC331 |
| Huaca de la Luna: fearsome Moche art (A.D.50-800) revealed at the pyramid of the moon near Trujillo | Ref:MKPUC332 |
| At the Huaca de la Luna: walls of Moche art (A.D.50-800) reveal cutaways across centuries at the pyramid of the moon near Trujillo | Ref:MKPUC333 |
| Patterns said to symbolise rain and fertility on the restored walls of the Huaco Arco Iris, a pyramid and temple in Trujillo | Ref:MKPUC334 |
| Huanchaco, a fishing village where families enjoy the beach at holiday time | Ref:MKPUC335 |
| Stacked to dry, fishermen's reed boats (caballitos de totora) are a feature at Huanchaco | Ref:MKPUC336 |
| On the Madre de Dios river, an Amazon tributary, a riverboat waits at Puerto Maldonado, regional capital and headquarters for NGO groups working on rainforest conservation | Ref:MKPUC337 |
| Huatzins are among a rich birdlife at Lake Sandoval in the Tambopata National Reserve | Ref:MKPUC338 |
| Machu Picchu, the Inca city Spanish conquistadores never saw; fame came after 1911 and its discovery by American explorer Hiram Bingham | Ref:MKPUC339 |
| Inca stone houses within the Machu Picchu citadel | Ref:MKPUC340 |
| In the 'lost city' of Machu Picchu, a massive 32-sided stone is one example of astounding Inca masonry skills | Ref:MKPUC341 |
| A magical setting--a cloud forest drapes the mountainous barrier that protected and concealed Machu Picchu for centuries | Ref:MKPUC342 |
| The 'Temple of the Sun' is among Inca structures at Machu Picchu with a strong religious significance | Ref:MKPUC343 |
| Inca ruins at Ollantaytambo include huge monoliths of pink rhyolite marked with the holy 'chacara' step motif. How the Inca moved mighty stones, and built with them, remains the subject of speculation | Ref:MKPUC344 |
| The town of Ollantaytambo survives much as the Inca built it, Inca stones solidly underpinning adobe houses | Ref:MKPUC345 |
| The Urubamba, or Sacred Valley, a bountiful plain near Cusco and heartland of superb Inca ruins and present-day markets | Ref:MKPUC346 |
| Children from a Sacred Valley hamlet shyly tender tourist handicrafts | Ref:MKPUC347 |
| The Sunday market at Chinchero in the Sacred Valley is loud with colour and life | Ref:MKPUC348 |
| Food, fuel, babies--shawl-wrapped bundles can, and do, contain everything a strong woman can carry | Ref:MKPUC349 |
| Highest quality traditional weaving is the aim of a women's textiles group in Chinchero--women, moreover, who always wear their own traditional Quechua costume | Ref:MKPUC350 |
| Sacsayhuaman, possibly a fortress, an imposing Inca ruin of awesomely fitted stones, the largest more than 8 metres high and weighing more than 350 tons | Ref:MKPUC351 |
| A Quechua woman poses near Cusco with a tasselled alpaca, llamas and sheep | Ref:MKPUC352 |
| Hugging a not-so-light llama a Quechua woman poses with a small flock of woolly animals | Ref:MKPUC353 |
| Spanish colonial churches--this one Jesuit--adorn the central plaza of Cusco, fabled capital of the Incas | Ref:MKPUC354 |
| An actor adds glitter to Cusco's Qoricancha, a Dominican convent built over a once-splendid Inca temple | Ref:MKPUC355 |
| Popular dishes in Peru's cuisine: cuy chactado (guinea pig) and chicharron (pork with crackling). The guinea pig is frequently seen in Cusco school paintings of 'The Last Supper' | Ref:MKPUC356 |
| On the dirt floor of an Indian home guinea pigs share space with the family cat | Ref:MKPUC357 |
| A Quechua mother, her children, llamas and a sheep | Ref:MKPUC358 |
| On the outskirts of Cusco a Quechua mother, her baby, her llama, her llama's baby | Ref:MKPUC359 |
| In the high plateau, or altiplano, flocks of woolly llamas, alpacas and sheep graze freely | Ref:MKPUC360 |
| High plateau landscape--this view north of Puno--is called 'altiplano' | Ref:MKPUC361 |
| Elegant reedboats are still to be found on Lake Titicaca--the puma stemhead a symbol of ancient mythology; for practical purposes most fishermen use wooden craft | Ref:MKPUC362 |
| Intriguing sight on Lake Titicaca--the M.S.Yavari, a 19th-century British-built gunboat, a museum-ship with an enthralling history | Ref:MKPUC363 |
| Floating islands on Lake Titicaca are inhabited by small numbers of Aymara and Quechua people: an old lady looks out of her reed home | Ref:MKPUC364 |
| On a Lake Titicaca floating island, Uros, a red skirt brightens a wet morning | Ref:MKPUC365 |
| The inhabitants of Taquile island in Lake Titicaca keep to their indigenous ways and costume--and seemingly knit and weave non-stop. These distinctively dressed young men are in charge of their community shop | Ref:MKPUC366 |
| Unusually, where most country women in Peru wear hats, the women of Taquile island on Lake Titicaca--two busily spinning here--wear mantas (shawls) over their heads | Ref:MKPUC367 |
| Valentin Quispe and his wife Lucila offer bed and board at their home at Llachón on the shores of Lake Titicaca | Ref:MKPUC368 |
| Valentin Quispe's gorgeously dressed wife Lucila at their home at Llachón on the shores of Lake Titicaca | Ref:MKPUC369 |
| A couple and their married daughter outside the family home near Sillustani | Ref:MKPUC370 |
| Condors fly in the dramatic Colca canyon near Arequipa, 200 km long and more than a thousand meters deep | Ref:MKPUC371 |
| Hikers beside the Colca canyon, the river more than a thousand meters below invisible from their viewpoint | Ref:MKPUC372 |
| The Cruz del Condor, where condors soar through the thousand-meters-deep gorge of the Colca canyon near Arequipa, attracts visitors and local traders | Ref:MKPUC373 |
| The Colca river valley, near Arequipa, is yet another aspect of Peru's geographic variety with its canyon, green terraces (andenes), and small friendly towns | Ref:MKPUC374 |
| In the Colca valley two different peoples wear the clothes and hats that define their ethnicity. This mother and daughter are Cabanas. The other ethnic group is Collagua | Ref:MKPUC375 |
| Cabanaconde is one of the towns the Spanish created in the Colca valley to concentrate dispersed Indian populations. Now it has its own commerce and personality--including a traditionally dressed mother and her modern-minded daughter | Ref:MKPUC376 |
| Each Colca valley town has its own whitewashed Spanish colonial church, one more beautiful than the next. This one is in Cabanaconde | Ref:MKPUC377 |
| Cheeses and honey are among locally produced foods sold in the covered market at Chivay, a Colca valley town | Ref:MKPUC378 |
| A small boy adds his own pile of stones to a sacred place of memorials | Ref:MKPUC379 |
| For the pale stone of its main buildings, prosperous and lively Arequipa is known as the white city. The cathedral dominates the flower-filled Plaza de Armas | Ref:MKPUC380 |
| PORTUGAL | |
| Alentejo farm | Ref:MKPTC76 |
| Alentejo shepherd | Ref:MKPTC224 |
| Alfama,Lisbon | Ref:MKPTC50 |
| Algarve beach | Ref:MKPTC61 |
| Almond blossom,Algarve | Ref:MKPTC73 |
| Almourol castle, Tagus river | Ref:MKPTC53 |
| Beira doorway | Ref:MKPTC45 |
| In the Beira serras | Ref:MKPTC46 |
| Belém tower,Lisbon | Ref:MKPTC47 |
| Balancing act with grape-filled basket | Ref:MKPTC227 |
| Blind lottery ticket seller | Ref:MKPTC71 |
| Camões, poet on a prow | Ref:MKPTC58 |
| Campinos (herdsmen), Ribatejo | Ref:MKPTC66 |
| Cavaleiro and bull | Ref:MKPTC64 |
| Children,Cascais | Ref:MKPTC69 |
| Chimney,Algarve | Ref:MKPTC62 |
| Convent window,Tomar | Ref:MKPTC54 |
| 'Day of the Boys', Trás-os-Montes | Ref:MKPTC68 |
| Discoveries monument, Belém, Lisbon | Ref:MKPTC225 |
| Espigueiros, corn stores, Minho | Ref:MKPTM79 |
| Fado, Bairro Alto,Lisbon | Ref:MKPTM80 |
| Fishermen's beach,Algarve | Ref:MKPTC60 |
| Fisherman's daughter | Ref:MKPTC70 |
| Hauling in a meia-lua,half moon | Ref:MKPTC59 |
| Loulé house,Algarve | Ref:MKPTC44 |
| Lusitano stallion, national stud | Ref:MKPTC67 |
| Monsanto, village of boulders | Ref:MKPTC52 |
| Monument,Lisbon | Ref:MKPTC51 |
| Mother and daughter head for the fair, Viana do Castelo | Ref:MKPTC228 |
| Mule cart,Algarve | Ref:MKPTC63 |
| Oxen in headpad yokes | Ref:MKPTM78 |
| Peony,Portugal | Ref:MKFLC74 |
| Ploughing and sowing,Algarve | Ref:MKPTC77 |
| Porto bairro | Ref:MKPTC55 |
| Pudim cook, Algarve | Ref:MKPTC72 |
| School of Equestrian Arts | Ref:MKPTC65 |
| Solar de Mateus,Vila Real | Ref:MKPTC56 |
| Steeply terraced vineyards,Douro | Ref:MKPTC226 |
| Vistas of hillside vineyards,Douro | Ref:MKPTC75 |
| tiles,Palácio Fronteira | Ref:MKPTC57 |
| Torre do Tombo,archives,Lisbon | Ref:MKPTC49 |
| Bear drying, Lisbon (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC146 |
| Chimney shaft (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC150 |
| Sleeping swan (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC137 |
| Stupefaction (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC149 |
| SEYCHELLES | |
| Palm-fringed beach, smooth boulders: a classic view | Ref:MKSEC299 |
| Young girl, looking composed; the mainly Creole population numbers 80,000 | Ref:MKSEC300 |
| On a dazzling beach fishermen haul their nets | Ref:MKSEC300 |
| In the capital, Victoria, Queen Victoria in miniature) | Ref:MKSEC301 |
| Downtown Victoria, a street corner in the capital | Ref:MKSEC302 |
| In a Creole population are Anglo, French
and--like this storekeeper--Chinese faces | Ref:MKSEC303 |
| Chopping coconuts in a Praslin island cooperative | Ref:MKSEC304 |
| Long-legged girl draining coconuts in a Praslin cooperative | Ref:MKSEC305 |
| A family moment in a matriarchal society | Ref:MKSEC306 |
| In her doorway a woman stitches | Ref:MKSEC307 |
| Children rafting across a shallow bay | Ref:MKSEC308 |
| Brendon Grimshaw on his island, Moyenne, with his 'Man Friday' and their dogs | Ref:MKSEC309 |
| Renowned artist Michael Adams, 'Gauguin of the islands' | Ref:MKSEC310 |
| In a hedgerow among brilliant island flora Caesalpinia pulcherrima (or aigrette) | Ref:MKSEC311 |
| Boy with pet fruitbat | Ref:MKSEC312 |
| Giant tortoise, one of a large population | Ref:MKSEC313 |
| Sooty terns occupy islands in vast numbers | Ref:MKSEC314 |
| Sooty tern: a closup view | Ref:MKSEC315 |
| Shearwaters are among resident species | Ref:MKSEC316 |
| Big as a goose--a well-protected booby | Ref:MKSEC317 |
| Tropic bird--a still fluffy fledgeling | Ref:MKSEC318 |
| On the bird preserve of Cousin island--a fairy tern | Ref:MKSEC319 |
| A rare black paradise flycatcher on La Digue island | Ref:MKSEC320 |
| SOUTH AFRICA | |
| Capetown, South Africa,l975,empire builder Cecil Rhodes | Ref:MKOSM216 |
| Robert Kennedy, a controversial visitor, arriving at Johannesburg | Ref:MKAFM262 |
| SPAIN | |
| Spanish bullfight | Ref:MKSPC82 |
| Guggenheim Museum,Bilbao | Ref:MKSPC83 |
| Holy Week,Zamora | Ref:MKSPC84 |
| Shepherd, Spain | Ref:MKSPC85 |
| Traditions in black, Spain | Ref:MKSPC86 |
| Bull spying (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC147 |
| SUDAN | |
| Dinka boy | Ref:MKAFC13 |
| Style, southern Sudan | Ref:MKAFC14 |
| Size matters, southern Sudan (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC142 |
| Soul matters, Khartoum (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC143 |
| TANZANIA | |
| Elephant among palms,Selous | Ref:MKAFC38 |
| Elephant crossing river, Selous | Ref:MKAFC39 |
| Maasai and lion, Ngorongoro | Ref:MKAFC30 |
| Maasai moran, Ngorongoro | Ref:MKAFC31 |
| Ostriches, dancers on a plain | Ref:MKAFC36 |
| Sungilded crocodile on the Rufiji river bank, Selous | Ref:MKAFC283 |
| Swallowtail, Selous | Ref:MKAFC40 |
| Velvet mite, Selous | Ref:MKAFC41 |
| Wildebeest migration,Serengeti | Ref:MKAFC32 |
| Wildebeest in the rain | Ref:MKAFC33 |
| Zebras under an African sky | Ref:MKAFC35 |
| Zanzibar's renowned Bi Kidude, in her nineties, beats a fast drum | Ref:MKAFC275 |
| Small dhows race in Zanzibar's waters | Ref:MKAFC294 |
| UGANDA | |
| Idi Amin in his Chancellor's cap(1974) | Ref:MKAFM23 |
| Out in force: hard times in Uganda | Ref:MKAFM7 |
| Tutsi girl, survivor of conflict | Ref:MKAFM1 |
| Tutsi refugee in a Uganda camp | Ref:MKAFM2 |
| -Uganda,1967, 'comedy act' during anniversary celebrations | Ref:MKOSM211 |
| -Uganda, 1967, prison service playacting during anniversary celebrations | Ref:MKOSM212 |
| -Uganda,1967, street parade during anniversary celebrations | Ref:MKOSM213 |
| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | |
| Ascending relished, Orange County (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC154 |
| Descending embellished, Hyatt Hotel (e&eo) | Ref:MKEEC155 |
| Controversial visitor to South Africa, Robert Kennedy arriving at Johannesburg airport | Ref:MKAFM262 |
| Shirley Temple Black, United States ambassador to Ghana (1975) | Ref:MKAFM264 |
| Henry Kissinger addresses a conference in Nairobi (1976) | Ref:MKAFM265 |
| Hugh Hefner and 'Playboy' Bunnies on safari in Kenya (1970) | Ref:MKAFM267 |
| Time magazine 'Man of the Year', Willy Brandt, West German chancellor, on holiday in Kenya (1971) | Ref:MKAFM263 |
| YEMEN | |
| Sana'a Old Town with its fancifully decorated tower houses above the souk | Ref:MKYEC449 |
| Sana'a Old Town with its fancifully decorated tower houses above the souk | Ref:MKYEC450 |
| Early morning light on Yemen's capital city Sana'a, its Old Town a Unesco World Heritage site | Ref:MKYEC451 |
| In Sana'a tower houses overlook vegetable gardens where Unesco's World Heritage project began in 1986 | Ref:MKYEC452 |
| In Sana'a Old Town tower houses loom over taxis and cars | Ref:MKYEC453 |
| Shibam, mud-brick city in the Hadhramawt, bears the nickname 'Manhattan of the Desert' | Ref:MKYEC454 |
| Yemen's famous skyscraper city Shibam is a distant mirage beyond camels in a desert market | Ref:MKYEC455
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| Children playing football near a 'suburb' of Shibam's walled city in the Hadhramawt | Ref:MKYEC456
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| In Seiyoun, capital of Yemen's Hadhramawt, the sultan's palace (now a museum) gleams above a market | Ref:MKYEC457
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| Mud-brick tower houses behind the market in Seiyoun, the Hadhramawt capital | Ref:MKYEC458
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| A veiled woman is a motorbike passenger passing a Hadhramawt shopping 'plaza' | Ref:MKYEC459
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| Men relax at a central café in bustling Seiyoun, the Hadhramawt capital | Ref:MKYEC460
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| A newly built Islamic shrine emerges from the ruins of a mudbrick house near Al Hawta | Ref:MKYEC461
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| In the Hadhramawt's Wadi Do'an a village rises from the seemingly arid terrain | Ref:MKYEC462
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| Date palms provide wealth to a village in the Hadhramawt's Wadi Do'an | Ref:MKYEC463
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| In the Hadhramawt's Wadi Do'an people head towards a small village | Ref:MKYEC464
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| West of Yemen's capital veiled women descend to the road below from the village of Al-Taweela | Ref:MKYEC465
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| Men perform a knife dance to honour a friend getting married that day in Thula | Ref:MKYEC466
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| Women in public are always veiled; a market display suggests at-home possibilities | Ref:MKYEC467
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| A shop's blue window frame in Amran, where most buildings are of mud bricks and straw, displays the owner's distinctive taste | Ref:MKYEC468
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| Window bars prevent a small boy from falling from a tower house into the street below | Ref:MKYEC469
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| A large cistern is prominent in the ancient village of Hababa west of Sana'a | Ref:MKYEC470
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| A camel caravan traverses Wadi Sar'a in western Yemen | Ref:MKYEC471
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| Chewing qat, a leafy stimulant, is a nationwide habit; fresh bundles are widely available | Ref:MKYEC472
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| The terraced village of Bani Sa'ad viewed from the high Bakour plateau with the Haraz mountains beyond | Ref:MKYEC474
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| Among Yemen's many scenic splendours are the Haraz mountains to the west | Ref:MKYEC475
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| Tiny villages dot hundreds of high crage in the Haraz mountains | Ref:MKYEC476
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| Hajjarah with its tall tower houses is a popular base for trekking in the Haraz mountains | Ref:MKYEC477
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| The plateau above Wadi Dhar and its renowned Rock Palace draws Yemeni families on weekend outings | Ref:MKYEC478
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| A young couple, the woman veiled as tradtion demands, enjoys a stroll on the Wadi Dhar plateau | Ref:MKYEC479
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| The main attraction at Wadi Dhar, west of the capital Sana'a, is the renowned Rock Palace, once an imam's summer retreat | Ref:MKYEC480
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| WILDLIFE (see Animals) | |
| ZAMBIA | |
| Ku-omboka, a flood plain tradition | Ref:MKAFM8 |
| Zambian smile | Ref:MKAFC12 |
| Victoria Falls, spectacular sight on the Zambezi river between Zimbabwe and Zambia | Ref:MKAFC289 |
| ZIMBABWE | |
| Victoria Falls, grand sight on the Zambezi river between Zimbabwe and Zambia | Ref:MKAFC289 |
| Detainees held at Wha Wha,1965, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) | Ref:MKOSM206 |
| Street scene, 1966, in Salisbury, Rhodesia, now Harare, Zimbabwe | Ref:MKOSM207 |
| 11 November 1965, unilateral independence is declared by radio in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) | Ref:MKOSM208 |
| 11 November 1965, watchful police in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) | Ref:MKOSM209 |
| Government House garden party, 1966, Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) | Ref:MKOSM210 |
