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Naval history

June 2023 Issue

Stephen Taylor

Cast Away in Patagonia

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By David Grann

April 2022 Issue

Stephen Taylor

From Out the Azure Main

The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels

By Tom Nancollas

June 2020 Issue

Mathew Lyons

Come Hell & High Water

Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail 1740–1840

By Stephen Taylor

December 2019 Issue

Neil Armstrong

Showdown on the Linoleum Ocean

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War

By Simon Parkin

November 1997 Issue

Tom Pocock

Quite Close Enough

The Devil's Mariner: William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer

By Anton Gill

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

August 2018 Issue

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

December 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

Scorbutic Sketches

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

By Jonathan Lamb

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

August 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

From Plymouth to Polynesia

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

By Neil Chambers

August 2016 Issue

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

December 2015 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Escaping the Vicoli

Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower

By Nicholas Walton

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

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

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

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