Spanning almost a century of global upheaval and human drama, this beautifully presented book follows the careers of a stellar quartet of National Geographic photographers who together recorded a remarkable era. The book is divided into four parts, each devoted to one man's life and work, with an essay by a close associate or a loved one and some 50 pages of images, many of which lay hidden in National Geographic archives for decades. Maynard Owen Williams observes elephants at work in 1921 Indi ...