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For 129 years, the venerable magazine has drawn in readers with its smart and striking visual storytelling.

A handsome new coffee-table book collects the best.

National Geographic Infographics (12/15/2016)by Julius Wiedemann (Editor)

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Theres a quality to something hand-drawn that is very hard to achieve on the computer, he says.

Its charming, its endearing, and somehow its more real.

Take a look at some of our favorite spreads fromNational Geographic Infographics,below:

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