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

LR

December 1999 Issue

Anna Reid

Never Found Him

In Search of Moby Dick: Quest for the White Whale

By Tim Severin

October 1998 Issue

Sara Wheeler

Tales of Derring-Do

Barrow's Boys

By Fergus Fleming

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June 1996 Issue

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

LR

February 2017 Issue

Roland Huntford

Off His Crocker

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

By David Welky

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

December 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

Scorbutic Sketches

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

By Jonathan Lamb

LR

August 1992 Issue

Kathryn Hughes

Kings of their own Castles

Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa

By Frank McLynn

LR

September 1987 Issue

William Hamilton-Dalrymple

The Sweet Name of Parkyns

The Gentleman Savage: A Life of Mansfield Parkyns

By Duncan Cumming

LR

August 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

From Plymouth to Polynesia

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

By Neil Chambers

LR

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

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

LR

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

LR

April 2003 Issue

Thomas Hodgkinson

Right To Roam

Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads

By Richard Grant

LR

July 2003 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

A Fine Young Cannibal

The White Headhunter

By Nigel Randell

LR

July 2003 Issue

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