National Geographic: Behind America's Lens on the World

by Howard S. Abramson

This is the first-ever independent, book-length account of one of America's most powerful and mysterious 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

Genres: History, Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published April 27, 1988