Neptune’s Fortune

Julian Sancton read History at Harvard, and is a senior features editor at Departures magazine, where he writes about culture and travel. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, The New Yorker, Wired, and Playboy, among other publications. Madhouse at the End of the Earth was both a New York Times bestseller and a Sunday Times bestseller.

A rousing slice of narrative history, and a rip-roaring tale from bow to stern