From Botswana to the Bering Sea : My Thirty Years With National Geographic
by Thomas Y. Canby

Travel Guidebook Series

Ecotourism Books

Canby was fortunate enough to have been a writer and science editor for "National Geographic" magazine from 1961 to 1991. In these recollections, he gives readers an on-the-ground look at the life of a "Geographic" staffer and an insider's view of the fascinating dynamics within the magazine's editorial chambers. Photos & maps.

The publisher, Island Press/Shearwater Books, info@islandpress.org , September 3, 1998
TOM CANBY calls it "THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD"
Canby explores this bold declaration in "From Botswana to the Bering Sea: My Thirty Years with National Geographic." Canby details his career as a writer and science editor for the magazine that's been called "a window on the world" and a "passport to adventure."

Canby brings the assignments to life, describing day-to-day decisions and experiences in such places as the Philippines, where a rice harvest is celebrated by a feast of deep-fried rats; villages in Asia and Africa gripped by the world's most widespread famine; and the Canadian high Arctic where Eskimos hunt seals and travel by dogsled. He describes the down-side of travel to the ends of the earth - the danger, the exhaustion and the loneliness - but also the bonding with fellow journalists that comes from sharing hardship and adventure.

Tom is a down-to-earth, intellectual journalist and traveler with tales about "getting the story" that leave even other journalists in awe. For anyone who's wondered what's behind the doors of this famous magazine, for anyone who has dreamt of being a writer, reporter, world traveler, or explorer -- and for those who really do it -- "From Botswana to the Bering Sea" will be a fascinating read.

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