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David Gilmour

David Gilmour’s books include The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and The Pursuit of Italy: A 
History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples.
 (March 2014)

He Dared the Undarable

He Dared the Undarable

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

by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

March 6, 2014 issue

Garibaldi’s Gift

Garibaldi: Citizen of the World

by Alfonso Scirocco, translated from the Italian by Allan Cameron

June 26, 2008 issue

Surprises of the Empire

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

by Maya Jasanoff

November 2, 2006 issue

Nobs & Nabobs

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

by David Cannadine

November 7, 2002 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

Adrift in Iberia

Adrift in Iberia

The Stone Raft

by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero

October 5, 1995 issue

Homage to Catalonia

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

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