From the September 2004 Issue A Native of the Ends of the Earth Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic By Michael Smith LR
From the December 2004 Issue A Crack Shot Wilfred Thesiger: A Life in Pictures By Alexander Maitland LR
From the October 2005 Issue Candour In Kandy Woolf in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904–1911 By Christopher Ondaatje LR
From the June 2005 Issue A Ruff-Diamond in the Kush The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda By Jules Stewart LR
From the March 2005 Issue The Arctic Atlantis The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule By Joanna Kavenna LR
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