J W M Thompson

Why Did Anyone Wish to Discover the Poles?

I May Be Some Time: Ice and The Imagination

By Francis Spufford

June 2017 Issue

Jason Burke

Cultural Desert

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures

By Charlie English

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February 2017 Issue

Roland Huntford

Off His Crocker

A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier

By David Welky

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December 2016 Issue

Fergus Fleming

All Over the Poyais

The Phantom Atlas: The Greater Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

By Edward Brooke-Hitching

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December 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

Scorbutic Sketches

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

By Jonathan Lamb

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August 1992 Issue

Kathryn Hughes

Kings of their own Castles

Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa

By Frank McLynn

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September 1987 Issue

William Hamilton-Dalrymple

The Sweet Name of Parkyns

The Gentleman Savage: A Life of Mansfield Parkyns

By Duncan Cumming

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August 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

From Plymouth to Polynesia

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

By Neil Chambers

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August 2016 Issue

David Gelber

A Girdle Round about the Earth

The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

By Harry Kelsey

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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

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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

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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

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April 2003 Issue

Thomas Hodgkinson

Right To Roam

Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads

By Richard Grant

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July 2003 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

A Fine Young Cannibal

The White Headhunter

By Nigel Randell

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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

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October 2003 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

Well Met By Moonlight

Words of Mercury

By Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper (ed)

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November 2003 Issue

Justin Marozzi

Perishing Pioneers

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

By Anthony Sattin

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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

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February 2004 Issue

Andrew Taylor

Death Became Him

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

By Laurence Bergreen

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February 2004 Issue

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Navigator of the North

Bering: The Russian Discovery of America

By Orcutt Frost

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