Лучшие книги Дэвида Гранна

Племени осейджей повезло уцелеть, когда белые колонизовали Америку. И еще им повезло очутиться на богатых нефтью землях Оклахомы. На старте нефтяной лихорадки двадцатых пресса наперебой сообщала о сказочном обогащении "краснокожих миллионеров". На этом везение индейцев закончилось, потому что их стали методично убивать: по одному и целыми семьями. Справиться с криминальным террором Эдгар Гувер, поставленный во главе только что организованного ФБР, поручает техасскому рейнджеру Тому Уайту… Захватывающее расследование, названное лучшей книгой года по версии Amazon, Wall Street Journal и еще полутора десятка американских изданий первого…

В 1925 году британский полковник Перси Фосетт отправился в джунгли Амазонки, чтобы отыскать столицу инков, легендарное Эльдорадо, которое он предпочитал называть “город Z”. Экспедиция пропала — и поиски ее следов сделались наваждением для множества людей. А некоторым из них это стоило жизни. В 2005 году нью-йоркский журналист Дэвид Гранн заинтересовался судьбой отважного полковника и неожиданно для себя тоже отправился в Бразилию. Его книга не просто увлекательное историческое расследование, а еще и живой захватывающий рассказ о величественном и до сих пор малоизученном крае. В 2009 году книга попала в шорт-лист премии Сэмюэла Джонсона как…

Недостает в наше время людей, обладающих логикой и проницательностью Шерлока Холмса, — об этом красноречиво свидетельствуют собранные в этой книге криминальные истории, — но расследования знаменитого сыщика по-прежнему будоражат умы наших современников. Находятся и те, кто не сомневаются в его реальности, а Конан Дойля считают лишь его летописцем. Быть может, исчезнувшие рукописи писателя помогут разрешить эту проблему? Попытка разгадать тайну пропавшего архива стоила жизни Ричарду Ланселину Грину, поклоннику и исследователю творчества Конан Дойля.

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Killers of the Flower Moon", a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs

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 emerged as one of the greatest leaders in history.

Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. He was related to one of Shackleton's men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modeled his military command on Shackleton's legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in the most brutal landscape in the world.

In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion, and hidden crevasses. Yet when he returned home he felt compelled to go back. On November 13, 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone.

David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today." Illustrated with more than fifty stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, "The White Darkness" is both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity.