September 2001 Issue Sara Wheeler Go With the Floe Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole By Fergus Fleming
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September 1987 Issue William Hamilton-Dalrymple The Sweet Name of Parkyns The Gentleman Savage: A Life of Mansfield Parkyns By Duncan Cumming LR
April 2003 Issue Thomas Hodgkinson Right To Roam Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads By Richard Grant LR
October 2003 Issue Jeremy Lewis Well Met By Moonlight Words of Mercury By Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper (ed) LR
November 2003 Issue Justin Marozzi Perishing Pioneers The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu By Anthony Sattin LR
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