Read Endurance

Percy Fawcett vanishes in the Amazon in 1925 and Grann goes to look.

Sail through a narrow gap into the flooded caldera of an active volcano, past a ruined whaling station and beaches warm enough to dig a hot bath.

Retrace the last leg of Shackleton's 1916 rescue march over the pass from Fortuna Bay to the Stromness whaling station.

Operation Highjump: four thousand American servicemen and thirteen ships sent to map Antarctica in 1946.

Chris McCandless walks into Alaska and dies in a bus; Krakauer reconstructs why.

Christopher McCandless walks into Alaska and the abandoned bus; Sean Penn's adaptation of Krakauer.

Watch the 2023 Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb.

One month of political horse-trading to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.