From the March 2003 Issue Desert Cockerels The Sword and the Cross: The Conquest of the Sahara By Fergus Fleming Sahara: The Life of the Great Desert By Marq de Villiers, Sheila Hirtle LR
From the May 2003 Issue Angels in Disguise The Third Sex: Kathoey - Thailand's Ladyboys By Richard Totman LR
From the June 2003 Issue Lines In The Sand Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal By Zachary Karabell LR
From the November 2003 Issue Perishing Pioneers The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu By Anthony Sattin LR
From the May 2004 Issue Title Chasing Josiah The Great: The True Story of the Man Who Would Be King By Ben Macintyre LR
From the June 2011 Issue The Cruel Sea Deadly Waters: Inside the Hidden World of Somalia’s Pirates By Jay Bahadur LR
From the November 2010 Issue Eastern Promise Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of my Iraqi Family By Tamara Chalabi When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq 1914–1921 By Charles Townshend LR
From the March 2009 Issue Tyranny of Trifles Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey through Islamic Lands By Aatish Taseer LR
From the December 2007 Issue Tewodros the Tragic The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy By Philip Marsden LR
From the September 2006 Issue A World of Wanderers Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration By Felipe Fernández-Armesto LR
From the July 2006 Issue Eastern Enlightenment Temptations of the West: How To Be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond By Pankaj Mishra LR
From the June 2006 Issue Precious Compost The Letters of Martha Gellhorn By Caroline Moorehead (ed) LR
From the April 2006 Issue He on Honey-Dew Hath Fed Kublai Khan: From Xanadu to Superpower By John Man LR
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