National Geographic: Behind America's Lens on the World

By Howard S. Abramson

Book Overview

This is the first-ever independent, book-length account of one of America's most powerful and mysterious institutions: the National Geographic Society, which for a century has been America's lens on the world.
"A lucid, authoritative history of the magazine and the National Geographic Society"
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
" ... This tale of an American family institution is great fun."
-Publishers Weekly

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1450225624
• ISBN13: 9781450225625
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"