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ISBN10: 1594200327, ISBN13: 9781594200328, [publisher: Penguin Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition Octavo in illus pale orange & white DJ; 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.; index. Sections entitled: 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. // National Geographic Society (U.S.) National Geographic Society (États-Unis); Publishing. Exploration, Magazines; Geography // SIGNED by author. FINE in FINE DJ. Signed by Poole on title page. First edition, first printing (full number line).
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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 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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