Title: From Botswana to the Bering Sea
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Biography, Field work, Geography, History, National geographic, Periodical editors, Science writers, Popular Print Disabled Books, National geographic magazine, National geographic society (u.s.), Journalists, biography, Fieldwork
Places: United States
People: Thomas Y. Canby
LC classification: G69.C28 A3 1998