November 1997 Issue Tom Pocock Quite Close Enough The Devil's Mariner: William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer By Anton Gill 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
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
September 2004 Issue Nick Smith A Native of the Ends of the Earth Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic By Michael Smith LR
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