Douglas Smith

Before Oblomov

A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate 'Pallada'

By Edyta M Bojanowska

August 2018 Issue

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

LR

December 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

Scorbutic Sketches

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

By Jonathan Lamb

LR

September 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

Marooned with a View

Crusoe’s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness

By Andrew Lambert

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

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

LR

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

LR

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

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

December 2003 Issue

Tim Heald

Shenanigans On Ship

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By Caroline Alexander

LR

February 2004 Issue

Paul Johnson

Good Queen Bess

The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada

By Neil Hanson

LR

March 2004 Issue

William Palmer

Coastal Calamity

The Caliban Shore: The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways

By Stephen Taylor

LR

March 2004 Issue

Simon Heffer

Warlords At Sea

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

By Robert K Massie

LR

March 2015 Issue

Lucy Moore

When the Ship Goes Down

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

LR

May 2004 Issue

Frank McLynn

Time of the Trireme

Salamis: The Greatest Naval Battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC

By Barry Strauss

LR

July 2004 Issue

Andrew Taylor

The Botanical Buccaneer

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier

By Diana and Michael Preston

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