November 2024 Issue Philip Parker To the End of the Sea Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus By John Haywood LR
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 Margarette Lincoln Making Waves The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans By David Abulafia
September 2017 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Water World On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500 By Barry Cunliffe
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
December 2015 Issue Jonathan Keates Escaping the Vicoli Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower By Nicholas Walton 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
November 2010 Issue Giles Milton Rise and Fall Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean By Philip Mansel LR
May 2009 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Found At Sea Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade By Sîân Rees LR
October 2008 Issue Nigel Jones Life on the Ocean Wave Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy By Roy & Lesley Adkins LR
May 2008 Issue Jason Goodwin Pirate of the Middle Sea Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521–1580 By Roger Crowley LR
April 2005 Issue Lucy Lethbridge Look What the Tide Dragged In The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships By Bella Bathurst LR
September 2012 Issue Vanessa Collingridge Breaking the Waves Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans By Brian Fagan LR
December 2013 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Med Men The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World By Cyprian Broodbank LR
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