From Amelia Earhart to Percy Fawcett’s expedition to the Lost City of Z, the fate of these five explorers remains mysterious. Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in an airplane circa 1936.

The tragic death of Amelia Earhart owed as much to her husband’s Svengali-like machinations as to her limited piloting skills, according to this canny dual biography. Journalist Shapiro (The ...

MUCH like the Bermuda Triangle, the Voynich manuscript and Amelia Earhart’s mid-air disappearance, it is one of the world’s ...