Carl Hoffman

Carl Hoffman is the author of “SAVAGE HARVEST: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art” and “THE LUNATIC EXPRESS: Discovering the World Via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains and Planes.”

Savage Harvest debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and was chosen as a New York Times “editor’s pick.” Amazon named it the best non-fiction book of 2014 and the Washington Post one of its 50 “notable” non-fiction books of the year. To untangle what happened to the son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who vanished in 1961, Hoffman learned to speak Indonesian and lived in a remote village amidst 10,000 square miles of road-less swamp with a tribe of former headhunters and cannibals on the southwest coast of New Guinea.

The Lunatic Express was named one of the ten best books of 2010 by the Wall Street Journal and was a New York Times summer reading pick.

A contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler and a former contributing editor for Wired, Hoffman has traveled to more than 75 countries on assignment for Outside; Smithsonian; National Geographic Adventure; ESPN, the Magazine; Wired; Men’s Journal, and many other publications.