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Explorers HouseRobert Poole, Robert M. Poole

Explorers House

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"Alexander Graham Bell resisted, but his family held firm - he would inherit the leadership of the recently established National Geographic Society. He came to relish his role as its guiding force, and over the next century he and his descendants built the Society into one of the most iconic organizations in the world, its yellow-bordered magazine as recognizable as the Nike swoosh of the Coca-Cola script. Explorers House is the first authoritative critical history of the National Geographic Society and its founding family, the Grosvenors, a media dynasty to rival the Sulzburgers, the Luces,…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionPenguin (Non-Classics)20063689780143035930
HardcoverPenguin Press HC, The20043689781594200328
National geographic society (u.s.)