Geography.” Was being a Grosvenor a burden? Your great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was a Society founder. You grew up in a home where everyone from polar explorer Robert Peary to Amelia Earhart to Louis Leakey crossed the threshold. The interview is edited and condensed for clarity. Grosvenor spoke by telephone from his lakeside cabin in Nova Scotia.
In his new memoir, A Man of the World , Grosvenor, now 91, explains what it was like to grow up in the family business that was National Geographic, and why the Society’s mission is more important than ever.
