Helen Bynum

Slimy but Wholesome

The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail

By Miek Zwamborn (Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison)

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

December 2019 Issue

Mathew Lyons

In Neptune’s Vast Dominions

Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill 1550–1800

By Margaret E Schotte

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December 2019 Issue

Rose George

In the Realm of the Walrus

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

By Bathsheba Demuth

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December 2019 Issue

Margarette Lincoln

Making Waves

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

By David Abulafia

November 2019 Issue

Hugh Thomson

One Man in a Boat

The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination

By Philip Marsden

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October 2019 Issue

Michael Griffin

Sinning on the Seven Seas

The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier

By Ian Urbina

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August 2018 Issue

Charles Foster

Pod Casts

Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator

By Jason M Colby

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals

By Nick Pyenson

August 2018 Issue

Frances Wilson

A Place in the Sun

The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

By Robert Holland

March 2001 Issue

Sarah Wheeler

A Pistol, a Bible and A Thousand Fur Seals

Selkirk's Island

By Diana Southami

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September 2017 Issue

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Water World

On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500

By Barry Cunliffe

February 2017 Issue

David Profumo

Ocean University

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

By Jonathan Balcombe

June 2016 Issue

Tom Fort

What Goes Out Must Come In

The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall’s Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast

By Gavin Knight

Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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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

Jan Morris

Of Wind & Water

The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea

By Tom Blass

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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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October 2015 Issue

Sara Wheeler

Water, Water, Everywhere

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

By Simon Winchester

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August 2015 Issue

Tom Fort

Cockles of the Heart

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

By Helen Scales

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May 2015 Issue

Allan Massie

Grain Store of Empires

Sicily: A Short History from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra

By John Julius Norwich

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