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ISBN10: 1594200327, ISBN13: 9781594200328, [publisher: Penguin Press] Hardcover
[Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

New York The Penguin Press 2004 First Printing [Stated] Hardcover Good in Good jacket [10], 357, [1] pages Genealogical Table. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Small scuff inside front board. Small creases on top edge of dust jacket. Signed by the author, Robert M. Poole, on the title page. Autographed copy sticker inside front cover. How the National Geographic's founding family--now in its fifth generation of leading the organization--overcame personal travails, generational tensions, and political setbacks to transform a struggling technical journal into one of the most respected brands. Robert M. Poole is an editor and writer whose assignments for Smithsonian and National Geographic have taken him around the world. A native of North Carolina and a veteran journalist, his stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Smithsonian. In 2001 he retired as executive editor of National Geographic after a 21 year career. Derived from a Kirkus Review: The former executive editor of its magazine provides a candid history of the National Geographic Society's vision and politics. In 1888, wealthy Washington lawyer Gardiner Greene Hubbard gathered together a group of men and suggested forming a society to advance popular geographical knowledge through lectures and a magazine. He sowed the seeds of the National Geographic Society, but its crucial bearings were set after Hubbard's death, when son-in-law Alexander Graham Bell assumed the society's presidency, ...

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[Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

New York: The Penguin Press, Date: 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. [10], 357, [1] pages Genealogical Table. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Small scuff inside front board. Small creases on top edge of dust jacket. Signed by the author, Robert M. Poole, on the title page. Autographed copy sticker inside front cover. How the National Geographic's founding family--now in its fifth generation of leading the organization--overcame personal travails, generational tensions, and political setbacks to transform a struggling technical journal into one of the most respected brands. Robert M. Poole is an editor and writer whose assignments for Smithsonian and National Geographic have taken him around the world. A native of North Carolina and a veteran journalist, his stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Smithsonian. In 2001 he retired as executive editor of National Geographic after a 21 year career. Derived from a Kirkus Review: The former executive editor of its magazine provides a candid history of the National Geographic Society's vision and politics. In 1888, wealthy Washington lawyer Gardiner Greene Hubbard gathered together a group of men and suggested forming a society to advance popular geographical knowledge through lectures and a magazine. He sowed the seeds of the National Geographic Society, but its crucial bearings were set after Hubbard's death, when son-in-law Alexander Graham Bell ...

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[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]
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ISBN10: 1594200327, ISBN13: 9781594200328, [publisher: Penguin] Hardcover Good history of the National Geographic Society. pp357. Unused; shelf wear only.
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ISBN10: 1594200327, ISBN13: 9781594200328, [publisher: The Penguin Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Signed by author on title page. Very light bumping to spine extremities. Else binding clean. Inked date and small stars on front flyleaf. Previous owner's blindstamp on title page. Else pages clean. DJ sunned along flap folds. Else DJ clean. ; B&W Photographs; GEH14C; 9.5 x 6.25"; 357 pages; Signed by Author
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New York Penguin Press 2004 First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover Near Fine in Fine jacket Book New York: Penguin Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Fine. Clean first edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean white boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Very small ink-stamped previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper-no other marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 358 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Fascinating history of a great institution-the National Geographic Society. A story with unexpected twists and turns and exotic characters to rival any of the expeditions mounted by the National Geographic.

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ISBN10: 1594200327, ISBN13: 9781594200328, [publisher: Penguin Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition New York: Penguin Press , 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Fine. Clean first edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean white boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Very small ink-stamped previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper - no other marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 358 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Fascinating history of a great institution - the National Geographic Society. A story with unexpected twists and turns and exotic characters to rival any of the expeditions mounted by the National Geographic.
[Stanley, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]
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New York Penguin 2004 1st Hb VG in G+ jacket 357pp. Extremities lightly rubbed. Front cover Dj wrinkled; 2-inch tear front cover Dj. Ilus.; endnotes; index.

ISBN10: 1594200327, ISBN13: 9781594200328, [publisher: Penguin, New York] Hardcover First Edition 357pp. Extremities lightly rubbed. Front cover Dj wrinkled; 2-inch tear front cover Dj. Ilus.; endnotes; index.
[Urbana, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

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[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]