The Complete National Geographic - 125 Years (1888 - 2012)

3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars | 97 ratings

Price: 114

Last update: 07-29-2024


About this item

Rediscover every printed page-every article and advertisement, and thousands of photographs-from 1888 through 2012.
Reference hundreds of the magazine's classic maps digitized as part of the magazine's archive for the first time.
Use Geobrowse -a visual geographic search tool-to find articles, photographs, and maps about the location you choose.
Browse special "read lists" from National Geographic or personalize your archive by creating and saving your own lists of favorite articles
Test your knowledge of subjects, including exploration, the environment, geography, history, and cultures with a trivia game that links to related articles.

Top reviews from the United States

Robin
5.0 out of 5 stars ... some negative reviews and unjust comparisons with the very poor CD-Rom version of this product
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2016
There have been some negative reviews and unjust comparisons with the very poor CD-Rom version of this product. I bought that and the print resolution was so poor it was unreadable to me. The DVD version is fine and the Adobe software is ok. I read this on a 23" monitor and it is readable easily at full screen and even easier if you zoom.
The user instructions are rather limited. For example it says you have to load all 6 discs (50Gb) onto your hard disk. This is not so, I have disc 1 and disc 4 only and it works fine for the years that are uploaded - and takes 9Gb on my hard drive. But you have to copy manually from the DVD to wherever you nominate, the software objects if it sees less than 50Gb free. I plan to move things to an SD-card and take no room on my hard drive, other than for the program.
The magazines speak for themselves - it is great to get so much material for less than $20.
Amazon Customer
1.0 out of 5 stars Utter rubbish
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2017
Against my better judgment, I bought this. I wasn't keen on NatGeo selling out to Murdoch. But since these magazines predate the sell out, I decided to buy it anyway. What a waste of money. I haven't encountered any adware yet, instead, I cannot load the magazines onto the computer. The program installs fine, though it first installs Adobe Air, not a problem, except it states that its installing CNG. Once that's done, it then goes on to actually install CNG. A bad bit of programming that.

I opted to install the magazines on my computer (running Win7). The intent was to avoid having them scratched through constantly swapping them out. Boy was I in for a surprise. They will not install. It kept asking for Disc#1 (2010-2012). Disc 1 has 1996-2009 (which is displayed in the upper right hand corner next to Exit, so it see it!!), disc 7 has 2010-2012. A bit more bad programming. I checked for updates, I have the latest version of software. I checked for content updates. After creating an account and installing a Free Content Update, it now asks for disc 1 1953-2012. I also discovered at this time that I have to purchase the magazines for 2011 and 2012, despite having them on disc 7.

As if that wasn't enough, I masochistically repeated all this BS on the laptop, which runs Win10. The exact same thing happened. To top it off, I can't uninstall it. There's no option and it does not appear in the Installed Programs list. I can uninstall Adobe Air, but not CNG. I'll have to roll my system back in order to remove it.

So much for a surprise gift.
Einjerhar
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT VALUE FOR HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2015
Prior to installing the software on my laptop that is a few years old I READ THE INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS which clearly states to install Adobe AIR if your computer does not have it. Done. Directions then say to USE DISC 7 FOR INSTALL. Check. Install directions also state DVD TO HARD DRIVE DOWNLOAD TIME CAN TAKE 60 - 90 MINUTES. I watched NCAA B-Ball playoffs while installing all the discs. Each took about an hour. I cannot see how one can complain about the download time when it is CLEARLY stated in the instructions, and then sit and watch it, complaining about it? LOL.

Search feature is great - type in a subject, for me it was Vikings, and I had no less than two dozen articles with Vikings mentioned or featured. Some commands may run just a tad slow, but not to the point where it is frustrating.

I know NG is known primarily for their stellar photography, but for twenty-some dollars I'm satisfied with the cost versus photo quality trade off. Honestly, the photo quality on the DVD's did not really bother me at all. For the price , I am fairly certain you will be pleased with the product - and all the free space if you elect to RECYCLE your NG collection.

I HIGHLY recommend this product - SUPERB VALUE for historical info.
Not My Real Name
2.0 out of 5 stars It's far from the quality of content nor quality of indexing/searching for research nor just looking around on a subject.
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2015
1) Requires their app to use content - see shortcomings of app below
2) App has more flash than value as its GUI is non-intuitive and it requires a ton of system resources (brand new Yosemite MBP-Retina was slowed down while it ran)
3) Swapping discs is needed constantly
4) The content does not seem to have been scanned into searchable form as I cannot find a way to get the search to include the text
5) Content appears to be pictures of pages - not all that easy to scroll nor read

It's far from the quality of content nor quality of indexing/searching for research nor just looking around on a subject. It appears to be a quick way of getting pictures of pages displayed using their clumsy custom and non-intuitive app.

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