In his new memoir, Gilbert Grosvenor, now 91, shares what it was like to grow up in the family business, and why the InsideNatGeo mission is more important than ever
When Gilbert M. Grosvenor retired as chairman of the National Geographic Society in 2010, ending five successive generations and 122 years of family stewardship, he was characteristically modest. “I’ve done my thing,” he said. “It’s time for others to have their turn.”
But the understated persona belies the contributions of a man and family who helped make National Geographic the iconic, multimedia empire it is today. The organization founded in 1888 “for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge” would, during Grosvenor’s tenure, expand into television, film, books, children’s publications, and digital media.
Grosvenor's grandfather, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor , and grandmother, Elsie Bell Grosvenor , relax with their children in 1907 at the summer home of Elsie’s parents, Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel Hubbard Bell , on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.magazine was in the July 1939 issue in an article about the Smithsonian Institution, where he posed on a meteorite.Please be respectful of copyright.
."In his 66 years of service to the National Geographic Society, he rose from being the only employee to directing a staff of hundreds," Grosvenor writes."In turning a scholarly journal into the popularPhotograph by Wallace W. Nutting, Nat Geo Image CollectionPlease be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.:"I had just enjoyed one of the peak experiences of my life: plunging beneath the polar icecap at a Canadian research camp," Grosvenor recounts.
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