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div class="content" div class="productDescriptionWrapper" div class="aplus" h4The Complete National Geographic/h4 div class="rightImage" style="width:225px" img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/B003XIKA4W-1_t.jpg" width="225" height="169" alt="Browse by issue" / div class="imageCaption"Browse by issue. View larger./div /div pIncludes 120-page book iHigh Adventure: The Story of the National Geographic Society./i/p h5Explore Machu Picchu. Unearth the secrets of the Pyramids. Live with species rarely seen./h5 pRediscover how courageous explorers found the remains of the Titanic. Brave the perils of a journey down the Amazon. Explore little-known secrets of the wild panda. Then, once more, stand at the edge of the Grand Canyon. These adventures and thousands more from National Geographic magazine's past 121 years are waiting in this incredible 6-disc boxed set./p div class="leftImage" style="width:225px" img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/B003XIKA4W-2_t.jpg" width="225" height="175" alt="Electronic pages" / div class="imageCaption"Leaf through electronic pages, search, zoom, scroll, and print at a high-resolution. View larger./div /div pBrowse over 1,400 issues, 8,000 articles, and 200,000 photos exactly as they appeared in print. Now updated to include 2009 issues, our definitive collection of every issue of National Geographic magazine invites you to browse, zoom, scroll, archive, and print in high resolution as you relive thousands of amazing discoveries./p pFrom headline-making events masterfully described by experts to thrilling adventures that took you far away...this exquisite collection captures it all. Every issue of National Geographic magazine has been digitally reproduced in stunning high resolution so you can read articles as they first appeared, even back in 1888./p div class="leftImage" style="width:225px" img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/B003XIKA4W-3_t.jpg" width="225" height="164" alt="Trivia" / div class="imageCaption"Trivia challenges with topic-specific questions. View larger./div /div pTake your collection of National Geographic magazines further with the power and ease of digitized information and images. The advanced DVD interface lets you explore topics, search for photographs, browse the globe, and virtually wander back in time. Never before have National Geographic's one-of-a-kind photography and award-winning writing been so captivating./p div class="rightImage" style="width:225px" img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/B003XIKA4W-4_t.jpg" width="225" height="169" alt="Engaging articles" / div class="imageCaption"Engaging articles. View larger./div /div div class="rightImage" style="width:225px" img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/B003XIKA4W-5_t.jpg" width="225" height="175" alt="Beautiful images" / div class="imageCaption"Beautiful images at high-resolution, capturing the clarity and quality of the original publications. View larger./div /div h5The Complete Collection: 1888-2009/h5 p121 years of articles, photographs, maps, and even advertisements as they appeared in print./p h5Hundreds of Classic Maps/h5 pOur most popular maps have been scanned and digitized for easy searching, zooming, and printing./p h5Easy to Use/h5 pInstalls quickly! View, print, and download for easy access anywhere, anytime./p h5Powerful Visual Search Tool/h5 pBacked by the power of Bing Maps, GeoBrowse uses the Internet to let you search nearly 5,000 worldwide locations for articles, photographs, and maps featured in our complete 121-yearold archive./p h5Track the Evolution of a Subject/h5 pResearch and insights are documented through the years by National Geographic's writers and photographers./p h4Enhanced Features:/h4 ul liImproved user interface for improved viewing of images and articles liAdvanced search functionality featuring Microsoft Bing technology liAbility to copy DVD-Roms to local computer drives for access anytime liBuilt-in online content upgrades to allow users to keep the archive current /ul /div /div /div