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    From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With National Geographic
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    From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With National Geographic
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    From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years With National Geographic

    By Thomas Canby

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    National Geographic has been called a window on the world and a passport to adventure. Each month an estimated forty million people in 190 countries open its pages and are transported to exotic realms that delight the eye and mind. Such widespread renown gives the magazine's writers unmatched access to people and places, as doors that are closed to the rest of the journalistic world open wide.
    Thomas Y. Canby was a National Geographic writer and science editor from 1961 to 1991, a time during which the Society grew by leaps and bounds and the resources available to staff were seemingly limitless. In From Botswana to the Bering Sea, he gives readers a look at the life of a National Geographic field staffer and an insider's view of the fascinating dynamics within the magazine's offices.
    Canby's assignments dealt with issues of global concern, and his travels took him to the farthest reaches of the planet. This book allows the reader to share in his experiences -- from a Filipino rice harvest capped by a feast of deep-fried rats, to impoverished villages of Asia and Africa gripped by the world's mwidespread famine, to seal hunting and dog sledding with Eskimos in the Canadian high Arctic. Readers match wits with paranoid guardians of the secret Soviet space program, skirt land mines in the flaming oil fields of Kuwait, and dodge death while scuba diving to an archaeological site in a Florida sinkhole. The book also gives insight into the magazine's inner workings: how article subjects are chosen and assigned; how writers interact; how prolonged trips to impossibly remote destinations are planned; how staffers operate in the field.
    Working for National Geographic has been called "the best job in the world." From Botswana to the Bering Sea describes that unique job, and answers the question Canby and his colleagues are so often asked: "So, what is it like to work for National Geographic?"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateApr 15, 2013
    ISBN9781610910729
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