Icebergs, ferocious storms and a mutinous crew feature in Mary Ann Patten’s little-known but epic journey

WHAT is she thinking about, I wonder?” I gazed at the little chess piece sitting in the display case in front of me. A crown sat on the figure’s head, indicating her status as a queen. One hand cupped

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Hunting in Portugal is as thrilling now as it was for the Duke of Wellington and his officers during the Peninsular War

Toby Green The Heretic of Cacheu Struggles over life in a seventeenth-century West African port 368pp. Allen Lane. £25. At one point in the seventeenth-century Inquisition trial at the centre of this

Anyone who is of a certain age will remember the children’s TV programme Record Breakers which, aside from the encyclopaedic knowledge of earnest right wing libertarian Norris McWhirter, the unlikely