For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Exploration

September 1987 Issue

William Dalrymple

The Sweet Name of Parkyns

The Gentleman Savage: A Life of Mansfield Parkyns

By Duncan Cumming

August 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

From Plymouth to Polynesia

Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the ‘Endeavour’ Voyage 1768–1771

By Neil Chambers

August 2016 Issue

David Gelber

A Girdle Round about the Earth

The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

By Harry Kelsey

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

December 2015 Issue

Andrew Crumey

In the Shadow of Mercury

The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe

By Thomas Levenson

July 2015 Issue

Philip Hoare

The Original Queequeg

The Captain and ‘the Cannibal’: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

By James Fairhead

April 2003 Issue

Thomas Hodgkinson

Right To Roam

Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads

By Richard Grant

July 2003 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

A Fine Young Cannibal

The White Headhunter

By Nigel Randell

July 2003 Issue

Andrew Taylor

On the Wrong Side of Progress

FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast

By John and Mary Gribbin

Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert FitzRoy, the Man who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World

By Peter Nichols

October 2003 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

Well Met By Moonlight

Words of Mercury

By Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper (ed)

November 2003 Issue

Justin Marozzi

Perishing Pioneers

The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Searchh for Timbuktu

By Anthony Sattin

December 2003 Issue

Andrew Taylor

The Price of Heroism

Captain Scott

By Rannulph Fiennes

The Last Great Quest: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice

By Max Jones

March 2004 Issue

Andrew Taylor

Death Became Him

Over The Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By Laurence Bergreen

March 2004 Issue

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Navigator of the North

Bering: The Russian Discovery of America

By Orcutt Frost

March 2004 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

In Search of NomadsL An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin

In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession From Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin

By John Ure

April 2004 Issue

Christabel King

The Explorer’s Wife

The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa

By Pat Shipman

Justin Marozzi

Title Chasing

Josiah The Great: The True Story of the Man Who Would Be King

By Ben Macintyre

June 2004 Issue

Steve King

For Love Of The Desert

The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy: The Real English Patient

By John Bierman

July 2004 Issue

Christopher Lee

One Man’s Museum

The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House

By Anne Sebba

July 2004 Issue

Steve King

A Honey Calling

Digger

By Max Anderson