| Editor | Jules B. Billard, Anne Dirkes Kobor, Thomas B. Allen, Ross Bennett, Seymour L. Fishbein, Mary S. Hoover, Edward Lanouette, David F. Robinson, Verla Lee Smith |
| Art Director/Editor | Charles O. Hyman |
| Director/Chief of Research | Mary H. Dickinson |
| Research Editor | Pamela Mucci, Shirley L. Scott, Annabelle Withers |
| Production Director/Manager | Wihelm R. Saake |
| Designed by | Connie Brown |
| Production | Karen F. Edwards |
| Researcher | Barbara G. Stewart |
| Indexer | George Burneston, Brit Aabakken Peterson |
| Contributor | John D. Garst, John J. Putman, George E. Stuart, Nathaniel T. Kenney, Diane S. Marton |
| Publisher | The National Geographic Society |
| Printed and Bound by | Fawcett Printing |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | United states |
| Copyright | 1974 |
| Pages / Font | 399 pages |
| ISBN | 0-87044-151-5 |
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