National Geographic 125 Years: Legendary Photographs, Adventures, and Discoveries That Changed the World

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Featuring show-stopping imagery and thrilling at the back of-the-scenes tales, National Geographic 125 Years captures the heart of National Geographic’s fascinating history, from its earliest days as a scientific club to its growth into probably the most world’s largest geographic organizations. The book reveals how much we now have come to know about our fascinating world through the pages and unforgettable imagery of National Geographic, and taps key voices from the vanguard of ocean and space exploration, climate science, archaeology, hiking, and plenty of other disciplines to peer with us over the horizon and see where we are heading one day.

A Sample from National Geographic 125 Years

Japan

JAPAN | 1912 In a hand-tinted picture, a Japanese girl
has a “wail” of a great time playing her traditional
three-stringed samisen. (Eliza R. Scidmore, p. 77)

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Afghanistan

AFGHANISTAN | 1984 Editor Bill Garrett had a fabulous
eye: It used to be he who plucked this Kodachrome frame from a
pile of rejects and made it the most famous cover image in
the magazine’s history. (Steve McCurry, p. 244)

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Canada

CANADA | 1909 Portrait of the explorer as a cold
man: Whether Robert E. Peary and his assistant,
Matthew Henson, reached the North Pole in 1909
or not, they came closer to that goal than anyone
before them. (Robert E. Peary Collection, NGS, p. 61)

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