The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold

Batavia: from the author of The Opera House, Ned Kelly and Mutiny on the Bounty

Execution: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Torture: Persuasion at its Most Gruesome

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)

Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Meeting

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening

Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2

River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon

On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

The Doctor Will See You Now

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon

K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North