David Abulafia

The World Was Not Enough

Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Dan Richards

On the Rocks

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

By Julian Sancton

Oliver Balch

From the Mersey to Manaus

Brazil That Never Was

By A J Lees

Fergus Fleming

Home of the Six-Foot Penguin

Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice

By Gillen D’Arcy Wood

Maren Meinhardt

From Tahiti to the Terror

Georg Forster: Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary

By Jürgen Goldstein (Translated by Anne Janusch)

Tom Pocock

Quite Close Enough

The Devil's Mariner: William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer

By Anton Gill

Christopher Ondaatje

Boldly Going

The Faber Book of Exploration

By Benedict Allen

Peter Moore

Object Lesson

Robert Mayhew

Snow Problem

To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

By Edward J Larson

Sarah Wheeler

A Pistol, a Bible and A Thousand Fur Seals

Selkirk's Island

By Diana Southami

Sara Wheeler

Tales of Derring-Do

Barrow's Boys

By Fergus Fleming

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

Roland Huntford

Off His Crocker

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

By David Welky

Fergus Fleming

All Over the Poyais

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

By Edward Brooke-Hitching

Peter Moore

Scorbutic Sketches

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

By Jonathan Lamb