This
fall, readers can join the National Geographic Society in celebrating its past
and future with a new book National Geographic 125 Years: Legendary
Photographs, Adventures, and Discoveries
That Changed the World (National
Geographic Books; ISBN 978-1-4262-0957-4; on sale Nov. 6, 2012; $50 hardcover),
by author and historian Mark Collins Jenkins, a former National Geographic
Society archivist. The foreword is by Gilbert M. Grosvenor, the Society’s
former chairman, president and National Geographic magazine editor, who is a
fifth-generation member of the Society’s founding family.
