From Botswana to the Bering Sea
Subtitle: my thirty years with National geographic
By: Thomas Y. Canby.
Publisher: Island Press [for] Shearwater Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Canby, Thomas Y.; National geographic -- History.; Geography -- Field work.; Science writers -- United States -- Biography.; Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
Description: Thomas Y. Canby was fortunate to be a Geographic writer and science editor from 1961 to 1991, a time during which the Society's ventures and size grew by leaps and bounds and the resources available to staff were seemingly limitless. In From Botswana to the Bering Sea, he gives readers an on-the-ground look at the life of a National Geographic field staffer and an insider's view of the fascinating dynamics within the magazine's editorial chambers.

This book gives the reader the visas and tickets to share in Canby's 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 most widespread famine, to seal hunting and dog sledding with Eskimos in the Canadian high Arctic.
Notes: Includes index.