March 2023 Issue Caroline Moorehead Planes, Trains & Snowmobiles Glowing Still: A Woman’s Life on the Road By Sara Wheeler LR
October 2020 Issue Adrian Weale Blowin’ in the Wind War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace By Martin Bell LR
September 2019 Issue Daisy Dunn Better Than Staying at Home The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations By Martin Gayford LR
May 2019 Issue Alex von Tunzelmann Words of War What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance By Carolyn Forché
December 2018 Issue Sara Wheeler The White Stuff The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate By Nancy Campbell LR
July 2018 Issue David Bodanis Sightseeing Scientist The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain, 1922–1923 By Ze'ev Rosenkranz (ed) LR
March 2017 Issue Maria Margaronis Roads to Rhodope Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe By Kapka Kassabova LR
June 2016 Issue Dominic Green World Traveller Plus White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World By Geoff Dyer LR
May 2016 Issue Catherine Brown From Odessa to Paris Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea By Teffi (Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson & Irina Steinberg) Rasputin and Other Ironies By Teffi (Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France & Anne Marie Jackson)
March 1985 Issue Charles Sturridge Labels & Remote People Labels By Evelyn Waugh Remote People By Evelyn Waugh LR
September 2015 Issue Philip Womack Road to No One Harry Mount’s Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus By Harry Mount LR
March 2003 Issue Christopher Ross Escape To Iberia Duende: A Journey In Search of Flamenco By Jason Webster LR
June 2004 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Le Coup De Bambou Tales From The Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropis By Alexander Frater LR
June 2008 Issue John Keay Savouring the Exotic Halfway to Venus: A One-Armed Journey By Sarah Anderson LR
February 2008 Issue Sara Wheeler ‘Crikey, I’ve fallen for the Hotel Barman’ Going as Far as I Can: The Ultimate Travel Book By Duncan Fallowell LR
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