"Resisting his own urge to walk away, award-winning artist George Butler took his sketchbook and made, over the course of a decade, a series of remarkable pen-and-ink and watercolor portraits in war zones, refugee camps, and on the move. While he worked, his subjects--migrants and refugees in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia--shared their stories. Theirs are the human stories behind the headlines that tell of fleeing poverty, disaster, and...

In August 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail in the Endurance with a crew of 27, intent on being the first expedition to cross Antarctica; instead, he and his crew became marooned and had to survive for 635 days and nights, without proper shelter and rations, before being rescued.