February 2021 Issue Hilary Bradt No Country for Old Men The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story By John Gimlette LR
December 1994 Issue Victoria Brittain Plucky Couple Stuck on the African Railways Blood on the Tracks By Miles Bredin LR
February 2003 Issue Richard Dowden The Vampires of Africa Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town By Paul Theroux LR
April 2016 Issue Andrew Lycett The Great Globe Itself Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet By Edward Wilson-Lee LR
March 1985 Issue Charles Sturridge Labels & Remote People Labels By Evelyn Waugh Remote People By Evelyn Waugh LR
June 2003 Issue Aidan Hartley Waifs and Strays Bay of Tigers: A Journey Through War-Torn Angola By Pedro Rosa Mendes, Clifford Landers (trans) LR
November 2003 Issue Justin Marozzi Perishing Pioneers The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu By Anthony Sattin LR
September 2011 Issue Alexander Maitland Into Africa Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure By Tim Jeal LR
September 2010 Issue Andrew Lycett The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief By V S Naipaul LR
September 2008 Issue Michael Holman Les Fous D’Afrique Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles By Richard Dowden LR
March 2008 Issue Aidan Hartley Doing the Lord’s Work The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted By Matthew Green LR
May 2014 Issue Patrick Marnham Road to Nowhere Congo: The Epic History of a People By David Van Reybrouck (Translated by Sam Garrett) Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo By Anjan Sundaram LR
April 2005 Issue Christopher Ondaatje Riddle of A River The Quest for the Secret Nile By Guy Yeoman LR
June 2013 Issue Michael Holman Out of Love with Africa The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola By Paul Theroux LR
September 2013 Issue Michael Holman Oil Be Damned Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola By Daniel Metcalfe LR
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