August 2024 Issue Philip Parker To the Ends of the Earth This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World By Andrea di Robilant LR
May 2024 Issue Edward Brooke-Hitching From Beer Street to Gin Lane Drink Maps in Victorian Britain By Kris Butler LR
October 2023 Issue Philip Parker He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft By Peter Bellerby
March 2023 Issue Robert Irwin In the Land of the Waqwaq Tree Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos By Travis Zadeh LR
December 2019 Issue Mathew Lyons In Neptune’s Vast Dominions Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill 1550–1800 By Margaret E Schotte LR
December 2016 Issue Fergus Fleming All Over the Poyais The Phantom Atlas: The Greater Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps By Edward Brooke-Hitching LR
August 2003 Issue Andrew Taylor Mappa Mundi Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas By Paul Binding The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds In Renaissance Europe By David Buisseret LR
August 2004 Issue John Hemming The Girth of the Earth The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon By Robert Whitaker LR
November 2004 Issue Michael Waterhouse Global Politics The World of Gerard Mercator By Andrew Taylor LR
August 2011 Issue James Le Fanu The Topography of Infection Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground By Tom Koch LR
September 2012 Issue Anthony Sattin All the World’s a Page A History of the World in Twelve Maps By Jerry Brotton LR
November 2012 Issue Gillian Tindall Charting the Capital London: A History in Maps By Peter Barber LR
December 2012 Issue Tom Fort No More Black Holes On the Map: Why the world looks the way it does By Simon Garfield LR
February 2014 Issue Jerry Brotton Roads to Xanadu Mr Selden’s Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea By Timothy Brook
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