Picturing the World
December 17, 2004
For more than a hundred years, National Geographic has brought the world's furthest flung corners into American living rooms. Offering glimpses of such wonders as Neanderthal language patters, Cambodian Buddhist temples, and caterpillars that fire feces at a velocity of 4.3 feet per second, the magazine has fueled the imaginations of countless armchair explorers. Brooke speaks with Robert Poole, who chronicled the magazine's history in a new book.
