National Geographic (Slovenian), April 2014
(For more on the cover story and translations see my comment below.)
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Albums: NG Slovenia Covers
Cover story: "Meet Your Neighbors: How Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, a doctor and natural historian, explored our flora and fauna."
First part of the cover title is in connection with the "Meet Your Neighbors" photography initiative by Niall Benvie and Clay Bolt, intended to make people more aware of the plants, animals, and insects in their local environment (hence "the neighbors"). More about the story in question below.
Other titles on the cover include:
(the "/" is used to distinguish between the title on the cover and the title inside the magazine, where such difference exists):
1) "The Trouble With Coal" / "Can Coal Ever be Clean?" (inside title is the same as in the English-language edition). The article was expanded for the local Slovenian edition by adding extra content titled "Slovenia’s Energy Future".
2) "Cosmic Dawn" (English-language edition title was "The View From a Giant Telescope" / "Cosmic Dawn").
3) "Treasures of the River Rhone" / "Romans in France" (English-language edition title was "Digging up a Roman Boat" / "Romans in France").
The other 2 stories with titles on the cover of the English-language edition also featured in this local issue:
1) "A Tale of Two Atolls" had the same title here, "Zgodba o dveh atolih".
2) "Towers of Lace for Breton Women" / "Legacy in Lace" was titled here "Hats off to Breton Women" (title in the table of contents) / "Legacy in Lace".
Cover story:
About the natural historian and doctor Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723 – 1788) originally from Cavalese (then in the Prince-Bishopric of Trent within the Holy Roman Empire, modern day northern Italian province of Trentino) who set about to document the flora and fauna of the Duchy of Carniola (then a Habsburg imperial estate within the Holy Roman Empire, modern day central Slovenia) while working as a doctor in the mining town of Idrija. He is also known for his correspondence with Carl Linnaeus (the founder of taxonomy). The official journal of the Slovenian Museum of Natural History, "Scopolia", is named after him.
Besides the written article, the story largely consists of macro photography done by Marko Masterl of some of the plants and insects identified by Scopoli, accompanied with their scientific Latin names. Masterl joined the "Meet Your Neighbours innitiative" in 2010 and then teamed up with local National Geographic magazine editors, which is how the story came about. The plant featured on the cover is European scopolia or henbane bell, scientific name: Scopolia carniolica Jacq.
The story received a "Best Edit" award by editors in Washington.
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