Title
Explorers house : National Geographic and the world it made / Robert Poole.
ISBN
1594200327 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : Penguin Press, 2004.
Language
English
Description
357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
G3 .P66 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
910/.6/073
Summary
For more than a century, through unparalleled research, exploration, publications, and photography, the National Geographic Society and its magazine have, in many ways, defined how we see the world. This book, based on unprecedented archival and inside information, provides a behind-the-scenes look, from its start in 1888 to its evolution into an iconic American institution, as well as the family story ₀of the Grosvenor media dynasty which, along with Alexander Graham Bell, created the photography-based monthly. Also shows the inside workings of the magazine's editorial process, providing a look behind some of its ground-breaking articles and explorations--from Cousteau's famous Calypso voyages to the origins of Jane Goodall's research on chimpanzees to the institution's 1963 Mt. Everest expedition.
Note
Includes index.
Alec and Mabel
A quiet birth
The first Grosvenor
A new generation
Educating Melville
The first hero
off to war
The changing order
The crash
A gentlemanly standard
The birthright
Melville takes charge
The best of times
facing life
Broken friendship
The third flowering.
