David Grann

After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many convinced that the Amazon was...

Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and...

"Vuelve el maestro del True Crime, David Grann, tras el x̌ito de Z, la ciudad perdida. Entre estas incre̕bles historias de cr̕menes reales, destaca ±El viejo y la pistola?, l͠tima pel̕cula protagonizada por Robert Redford. La incre̕ble historia del ladr̤n de bancos Forrest Tucker da t̕tulo a esta colecci̤n de cr̕menes reales, tres relatos en los que el periodista David Grann demuestra por qǔ es considerado el mejor escritor de no-ficci̤n...

The Reign of Terror against the Osage people was one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes. As the Wild West was dying, someone was killing members of the Osage nation who had gotten rich off the oil under their land. Investigators who tried to uncover the truth were disappearing, but still J. Edgar Hoover asked a former Texas Ranger to work with the Osage to unravel the mystery. 1920s Oklahoma. The richest people per capita in the world...