March 2022 Issue David Abulafia The World Was Not Enough Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan By Felipe Fernández-Armesto LR
May 2018 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto A Voyage Round His Father The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library By Edward Wilson-Lee
August 2016 Issue David Gelber A Girdle Round about the Earth The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery By Harry Kelsey LR
May 2016 Issue Peter Moore ‘Great South Land of the Holy Spirit’ The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery By Graham Seal LR
February 2004 Issue Andrew Taylor Death Became Him Over The Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe By Laurence Bergreen LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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