Historical Geography

The Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a travel...

Pickup an old stamp album and flick through it. You’ll find a host of exotic and unfamiliar names: Cyrenaica, Fernando Poo, Fiume, North Ingria, Ob...

Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty o...

'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON...

WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE • "Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work."—RBC Taylor Prize Jury Citation...

'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' - CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL HOUSE'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' - PETINA GAPP...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region tha...

A highly-illustrated, pocket-sized guide to understanding the forces that have shaped the world’s cities from the dawn of civilisation to the prese...

Ever since the dawn of human history, islands have been at the heart of our desires - and our fears. Drawing on anthropology, literature, biology...

For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained...

Where do you draw the line? In the context of geopolitics, much hinges on the answer to that question. For thousands of years, it has been the work...

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Os...

The Nile, the world's longest river system, has figured prominently in historic events over millennia. This book views the Nile as both the stage o...