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Bushman in a canoe
October 5, 2011

Bushman, Botswana

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Sunlight and shadows highlight a river Bushman in a canoe in the Okavango River. When the river swells and floods, it creates an alluvial fan of more than 10,000 square miles (26,000 square kilometers).

(From the upcoming National Geographic book Visions of Earth)

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Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic

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