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

Kathryn Hughes

Kings of their own Castles

Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa

By Frank McLynn

William Hamilton-Dalrymple

The Sweet Name of Parkyns

The Gentleman Savage: A Life of Mansfield Parkyns

By Duncan Cumming

Peter Moore

From Plymouth to Polynesia

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

By Neil Chambers

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

Andrew Crumey

In the Shadow of Mercury

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

By Thomas Levenson

Philip Hoare

The Original Queequeg

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

By James Fairhead