The National Geographic Society by Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan

"In The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery, author C.D.B. Bryan covers the entire history of the Geographic, focusing on the guiding personalities behind it--from Gardiner Greene Hubbard and Alexander Graham Bell to three generations of the Grosvenor family; he brings to life its flamboyant explorers and innovative photographers. ...These superb photographs and illustrations form an assemblage of images that, along with Bryan's absorbing text, recreates the National Geographic Society's exciting legacy of science and adventure, one that mirrors America's changing perception of itself and the world over the past one hundred years."--