Photo of the Day 454

Fisherman, Mocha, Yemen, 1964

Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie

Once-thriving Mocha, Yemen, grew rich exporting coffee, cultivated in the mountains nearby, and its name became synonymous with the drink. Decline set in when 18th-century planters successfully grew the bean in Java and the New World. Today blowing sand dusts the town and silts its harbor.

(Photo shot on assignment for "Behind the Veil of Troubled Yemen," March 1964, National Geographic magazine)