November 1997 Issue Tom Pocock Quite Close Enough The Devil's Mariner: William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer By Anton Gill LR
April 2018 Issue 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
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
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 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
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
February 2005 Issue Christopher Ondaatje Meeting the Unknown Cassell’s Tales of Endurance By Fergus Fleming LR
May 2012 Issue Timothy Brook Raise the Holy Sail Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem By Carol Delaney The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama By Nigel Cliff LR
March 2013 Issue Amanda Foreman Blazing Sidesaddles O My America! Second Acts in a New World By Sara Wheeler LR
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