The salty pleasures of the doorstopper history of an ocean
A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...
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Weekend Warm-up Special Edition: A Complete Retrospective on Game of Thrones
This was born out of some discussions in the comments of the Weekend Warm-up column, so we wanted to explore why many of ...
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George Anson, the British seafarer who circumnavigated the world to capture the Spanish Acapulco Galleon
The War of Jenkins’ Ear pitted Britain against Spain from 1739 to 1748, leaving three particularly noteworthy episodes in its ...