From the September 2024 Issue Smoke & Mirrors The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years By Sunil Amrith LR
From the July 2023 Issue Caught in the Thirst Trap In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water By James Fergusson Water and Peace: A Journey Through the World’s Most Explosive Conflict Zones in Search of Deep Water By Alain Gachet The Last Drop: Solving the World’s Water Crisis By Tim Smedley LR
From the March 2023 Issue It’s the End of the World as We Know It The Earth Transformed: An Untold History By Peter Frankopan
From the August 2021 Issue Circling the Drain Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains By Lucas Bessire LR
From the April 2021 Issue No Need to Bring a Shovel The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins By Tom Higham LR
From the December 2019 Issue Papa Franz’s People The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture By Charles King LR
From the July 2019 Issue A Polymath’s Progress Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science By Robyn Arianrhod LR
From the May 2001 Issue They Mistook Kenya for the Home Counties Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire By David Cannadine LR
From the November 2018 Issue Ruling the Waves Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World By Andrew Lambert LR
From the May 2018 Issue A Voyage Round His Father The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library By Edward Wilson-Lee
From the September 2017 Issue Water World On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500 By Barry Cunliffe
From the August 2017 Issue All They Could Eat The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World By Lizzie Collingham LR
From the April 2017 Issue Handing over the Keys to Paradise The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End By Elizabeth Drayson LR
From the July 2016 Issue Novel Arguments The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World By William Egginton LR
From the August 2015 Issue From the Black Sea to Xinjiang The Silk Roads: A New History of the World By Peter Frankopan LR
From the May 2015 Issue Down by the Sea Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World By Noel Malcolm Peiresc’s Mediterranean World By Peter N Miller
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