Caroline Alexander has written for The New Yorker, Granta, Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, Outside, and National Geographic. She is the curator of “Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Expedition,” an exhibition that opened at the American Museum of Natural History in March 1999. She lives on a farm in New Hampshire.
Books in order of publication:
One Dry Season: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley in Equatorial Africa – 1989
The Way to Xanadu – 1994
Battle’s End: A Seminole Football Team Revisited – 1995
Mrs. Chippy’s Last Expedition, 1914–1915 – 1997
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition – 1998
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty – 2003
The War that Killed Achilles: The True Story of the Iliad and the Trojan War – 2009
Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: War, Treasure and the Mystery of the Saxons – 2011
The Iliad: A New Translation – 2015
Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World – 2024
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