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From the Field
(1997)A Collection of Writings from National Geographic
A non fiction book by Charles McCarry
Unexpected Eloquence
The National Geographic archive, long renowned as a mother lode of superb photography and fascinating information, has also yielded the wonderful writing that stands alone in this collection.
From the Field presents a wide-ranging selection of writings by world-class figures: novelists and naturalists, poets and presidents, explorers and adventurers, and pioneers. Each piece is a gem of its kind; taken together they add up to a chronicle of a hundred years of discovery and a capsule history of National Geographic itself.
Here's just a glimpse of the riches that you'll find among the scores of authors and articles collected in this wonderful anthology:
Alexander Graham Bell Aerial Locomotion
Joseph Conrad Geography and Some Explorers
David Lamb: A Season in the Minors
Charles A. Lindbergh To Bogota and Back by Air
Archibald MacLeish The Thrush on the Island of Barra
James Fallows: Vatican City
Diane Ackerman: In Praise of Squirrels
Jane Goodall The Imperiled Mountain Gorilla
William O. Douglas West from the Khyber Pass
Theodore Roosevelt Wild Man and Wild Beast in Africa
Amelia Earhart My Flight from Hawaii
Geoffrey C. Ward India's Wildlife Dilemma
Robert E. Peary The Discovery of the Pole
Willie Morris: Faulkner's Mississippi
William Least Heat-Moon Oregon's Outback
Barry Lopez: California Desert
David Remnick Moscow: The New Revolution
Paul Theroux: Down the Zambezi
The National Geographic archive, long renowned as a mother lode of superb photography and fascinating information, has also yielded the wonderful writing that stands alone in this collection.
From the Field presents a wide-ranging selection of writings by world-class figures: novelists and naturalists, poets and presidents, explorers and adventurers, and pioneers. Each piece is a gem of its kind; taken together they add up to a chronicle of a hundred years of discovery and a capsule history of National Geographic itself.
Here's just a glimpse of the riches that you'll find among the scores of authors and articles collected in this wonderful anthology:
Alexander Graham Bell Aerial Locomotion
Joseph Conrad Geography and Some Explorers
David Lamb: A Season in the Minors
Charles A. Lindbergh To Bogota and Back by Air
Archibald MacLeish The Thrush on the Island of Barra
James Fallows: Vatican City
Diane Ackerman: In Praise of Squirrels
Jane Goodall The Imperiled Mountain Gorilla
William O. Douglas West from the Khyber Pass
Theodore Roosevelt Wild Man and Wild Beast in Africa
Amelia Earhart My Flight from Hawaii
Geoffrey C. Ward India's Wildlife Dilemma
Robert E. Peary The Discovery of the Pole
Willie Morris: Faulkner's Mississippi
William Least Heat-Moon Oregon's Outback
Barry Lopez: California Desert
David Remnick Moscow: The New Revolution
Paul Theroux: Down the Zambezi
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