By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

He thrived on “the silence that we have driven from our world.”

By: Anthony Miller

A resolute seeker of forbidden knowledge.

By: Lucy Sante

The clochard who chronicled freedom from the straight world.

By: Peggy Nelson

Emergency. Everybody to get from street.

By: Peggy Nelson

His irrepressible optimism and perseverance outlasted his era.

By: Matthew Battles

His silence helps to preserve the moon’s mystique.

By: Peggy Nelson

The heiress-turned-aviatrix who conquered earth, sea, & air.

By: Peggy Nelson

He’s still there because it’s there.

By: Matthew Battles

THOR HEYERDAHL (1914–2002) lived a long life, but so much was left undone: he might have piloted an ice floe from Porvoo to Hokkaido to prove Finland’s nomadic Sami peopled Japan; he might have shown […]

By: Matthew Battles

In more than 120 television specials JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU (1910–97) portrayed a floating utopia in which perfectly tanned, massively skilled argonauts roamed the seven seas in search of beauty and danger, supported by donations and calendar […]