From the Field: A Collection of Writings from National Geographic
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ISBN: 0792270126 / Publisher: National Geographic, October 1997
A selection of articles and other writings from the one-hundred-year history of National Geographic includes contributions by Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh, Joseph Conrad, Amelia Earhart, Jane Goodall, and Sir Edmund Hillary
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Figures such as Alexander Graham Bell, Theodore Roosevelt, Archibald MacLeish, and Charles Lindbergh share the same pages with Joseph Conrad, Jane Goodhall, Amelia Earhart, Maya Angelou and others in this wide-ranging selection of writings from the Society's archives, offering eloquent proof that although a picture may indeed be worth a thousand words, a well-turned phrase has a magic all its own. Chronicles 100 years of discovery and includes a capsule history of the National Geographic itself. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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