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Traveling the World for National Geographic

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“This is a story, a picture story, of two very lucky people before whom was spread out the greatest of treasures, the planet Earth. We traveled aboard a magic carpet, the one with the yellow borders, National Geographic magazine. During four decades we wandered over all the continents and left wakes across the seven seas.” — Thomas J. Abercrombie

The Age of Discovery did not end with Columbus. Uncharted corners of the world still beckoned when Thomas J. Abercrombie began covering the …

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My grandfather worked for National Geographic for almost 40 years. Here’s some of the interesting situations he got himself into…(r/pics)

Clockwise from top left: (1) Leaving the jungles of Venezuela; (2) discovering the Wabar meteorite; (3) frozen as the first journalist at the South Pole in 1957; (4) with geishas in Japan; (5) with a kangaroo in Australia; (6) recovering from a cable car accident in the Andes; (7) with Yemeni soldiers during the 1962 revolution and (8, center) with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.

He died 5 years ago. Since then, we have been working on a book of his and my grandmother’s life together and with the Geographic. We just got the printed copies and are super excited to share.

EDIT: If anyone wants to, you can check out our book on Amazon.

EDIT2: gowampygo reminded me that we made a Wiki page for him. Here it is.

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Hardcover

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BOOKS_1973_AND_LATER

Book Author

Thomas J. and Lynn B. Abercrombie

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Birch Landing Press

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