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He Dared the Undarable

Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War

by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

March 6, 2014 issue

The Curse of Afghanistan

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839–42

by William Dalrymple

November 21, 2013 issue

Garibaldi’s Gift

Garibaldi: Citizen of the World

by Alfonso Scirocco, translated from the Italian by Allan Cameron

June 26, 2008 issue

The Restless Conqueror

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

by Tim Jeal

December 6, 2007 issue

Surprises of the Empire

Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850

by Maya Jasanoff

November 2, 2006 issue

The Great Victorian Abroad

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire

by Andrew Ross

June 23, 2005 issue

Eastward Ho!

A biography of Josiah Harlan recounts the story of the real-life Man Who Would Be King, a Pennsylvania Quaker who became an Afghan prince.

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan

by Ben Macintyre

May 13, 2004 issue

Nobs & Nabobs

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

by David Cannadine

November 7, 2002 issue

Little War, Big Mess

Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856

Trevor Royle

April 12, 2001 issue

The Man Who Would Be Good

The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 4: 1911-19

edited by Thomas Pinney

May 25, 2000 issue

The Empire’s New Clothes

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac

February 24, 2000 issue

The Ballad of Federico García Lorca

Lorca: A Dream of Life

by Leslie Stainton

November 4, 1999 issue

Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

by Mary S. Lovell

April 8, 1999 issue

Adrift in Iberia

The Stone Raft

by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero

October 5, 1995 issue

Homage to Catalonia

Barcelona

by Robert Hughes

Barcelonas

by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, translated by Andy Robinson

June 11, 1992 issue

Desert Ruritania

Cities of Salt

by Abdelrahman Munif, translated by Peter Theroux

The Trench

by Abdelrahman Munif, translated by Peter Theroux

March 26, 1992 issue