In the summer of 1899 the railroad magnate E. H. Harriman took his family and some friends on a tour of the Alaska coast. Since there was plenty of room on the ship, and because he had the personal ...

A detail from English artist Edwin Landseer’s 1864 painting “”Man Proposes, God Disposes,” depicting a ship’s wreckage in the Arctic, human bones, and two polar bears having their way with it all, ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left staggered on learning the astounding value of a book uncovered in a library. A Leeds Central Library worker brought a captivating photo album from an Antarctic ...