Simon Winchester explores topics from the urbane to the catastrophic in his New York Times bestselling nonfiction books, which include The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, and The Man Who Loved China. His writing also appears in National Geographic and Smithsonian magazine. From the Purple Islands off the coast of Morocco to the tip of Antarctica, Winchester's new book Atlantic takes readers on an armchair expedition across the breadth and depth of the Atlantic Ocean, documenting its dynamic history along the way.

Recipient of the James Thurber Prize for American Humor, Ian Frazier is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and the author of Great Plains, On the Rez, Dating Your Mom, and Lamentations of the Father, a collection of essays. Brimming with fur seekers, tea caravans, and exiles of every kind, Travels in Siberia is part travelogue, part history, and part personal reflection on the grim and much storied region of Russia--in Frazier's hands, humor is still to be found along the way.