The National Geographic Magazine, September, 1942, Volume LXXXII, Number Three. Two original articles by Owen Lattimore. 

China Opens Her Wild West: In the Mountain-girt Heart of a Continent a New China Has Been Created During the Years of War, by Owen Lattimore, Political Advisor to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek; Director, Walter Page School of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University.

Included in this issue are:
Strategic Alaska Looks Ahead with 18 Illustrations and Map by Ernest H. Gruening;
Our Northwestern Outpost with 16 Natural Color Photographs;
The Lonely Aleutians by Lonnelle Davison;
Discovering Alaska's Oldest Arctic Town with 15 Illustrations, by Froelich G. Rainey;
China Opens Her Wild West with 21 Illustrations and Map by Owen Lattimore;
South of the Clouds - Yunnan with 11 Natural Color Photographs;
Greenland Turns to America with 5 Natural Color Photographs, 7 Other Illustrations and Map, by James K. Penfield;
Forty Years Among the Arabs with 27 Illustrations and Map, by John Vaness;
The Camel, Man's Age-old Servant with 11 Illustrations in Suotone

Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia. During World War II, he was an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the American government and contributed extensively to the public debate on U.S. policy toward Asia.

A complete issue, overall in good condition.