Written with new material and the full co-operation of his family, this biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic, reveals his epic journey in the Antarctic winter and his depression over the loss over the Scott expedition.[...]

Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, the author discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery.[...]

After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as "Terra Incognita" and "The Magnetic North", Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various s[...]

It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great j[...]

An authorized biography of Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard describes his adventures during Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole, his service during World War I, his battle against debilitating depression, and his masterful account of his polar adventures, The Worst Journey in the Wor[...]

The seahorse-shaped island of Evia - Euboia in classical history and Negroponte for many centuries - is the second largest in Greece, yet it is almost completely undiscovered by tourists. Separated from the mainland by only a sliver of sea, Evia has had a turbulent history. Today, it encapsulates th[...]