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Cast Away in Patagonia
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann
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Stephen Taylor
From Out the Azure Main
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels
By Tom Nancollas
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Mathew Lyons
Come Hell & High Water
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail 1740–1840
By Stephen Taylor
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Neil Armstrong
Showdown on the Linoleum Ocean
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War
By Simon Parkin
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Tom Pocock
Quite Close Enough
The Devil's Mariner: William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer
By Anton Gill
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November 2018 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Ruling the Waves
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
By Andrew Lambert
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August 2018 Issue
Douglas Smith
Before Oblomov
A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate 'Pallada'
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Robert Mayhew
Vessel of Knowledge
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude That Changed the World
By Peter Moore
January 1997 Issue
William Waldegrave
Never Lets Us Down
The Yellow Admiral
By Patrick O'Brian
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Peter Moore
Scorbutic Sketches
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
By Jonathan Lamb
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Peter Moore
Marooned with a View
Crusoe’s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness
By Andrew Lambert
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August 2016 Issue
Peter Moore
From Plymouth to Polynesia
Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the ‘Endeavour’ Voyage 1768–1771
By Neil Chambers
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August 2016 Issue
David Gelber
A Girdle Round about the Earth
The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery
By Harry Kelsey
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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
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December 2015 Issue
Jonathan Keates
Escaping the Vicoli
Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower
By Nicholas Walton
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September 2015 Issue
David Gelber
When Lisbon Ruled the Waves
Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
By Roger Crowley
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May 2015 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Down by the Sea
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
By Noel Malcolm
Peiresc’s Mediterranean World
By Peter N Miller
March 2003 Issue
Jeremy Lewis
Press Gangs and Pensioners
Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, The Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy
By David I Harvie
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July 2003 Issue
Tom Pocock
Britannia Rules the Waves
Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1857
By Peter Padfield
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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
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