June 2021 Issue Dan Richards On the Rocks Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night By Julian Sancton LR
June 2020 Issue 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 LR
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
September 1987 Issue William Hamilton-Dalrymple The Sweet Name of Parkyns The Gentleman Savage: A Life of Mansfield Parkyns By Duncan Cumming 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
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 LR
November 2003 Issue Justin Marozzi Perishing Pioneers The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu By Anthony Sattin LR
March 2004 Issue Christopher Ondaatje In Search of Nomads: 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 LR
May 2004 Issue Justin Marozzi Title Chasing Josiah The Great: The True Story of the Man Who Would Be King By Ben Macintyre LR
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 LR
July 2012 Issue Justin Marozzi The Heinrich Manoeuvres A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa By Steve Kemper LR
March 2013 Issue Amanda Foreman Blazing Sidesaddles O My America! Second Acts in a New World By Sara Wheeler LR
September 2013 Issue Charles Elliott Beautiful Monster The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created By Tatiana Holway LR
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