Written by authors who know National Geographic best, the National Geographic Expeditions Atlas is an intimate and lively retrospective of the Society's extended family, both past and present. Here are the adventurers, scientists and others who for more than a century have epitomized the Society's enduring mission to explore our world and everything in it. People such as Richard Byrd and Hiram Bingham; mountaineer Edmund Hillary and polar trekker Will Steger; divers Jacques Cousteau and Bob Ballard. With an insightful foreword by Peter H. Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and chairman of the Society's Committee for Research and Exploration.
