December 2020 Issue Charles Elliott They Risked Their Lives for Flowers Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors – An Adventurous History of Botany By Jordan Goodman LR
June 2019 Issue Oliver Balch Cabin Fever Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth By Dan Richards LR
October 2018 Issue Wendy Moore Liquid of Life Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood By Rose George LR
September 2017 Issue Jan Morris Let It Blow Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe’s Winds from the Pennines to Provence By Nick Hunt
November 1996 Issue Anthony Clare Romantic on the Loose The Island of the Colour-Blind By Oliver Sacks
December 2013 Issue Peter Raby Tiger Beetles on Ternate Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago By John van Wyhe & Kees Rookmaaker (edd) LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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