David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)
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Garibaldi’s Gift
June 26, 2008
Garibaldi: Citizen of the World
by Alfonso Scirocco, translated from the Italian by Allan Cameron
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The Restless Conqueror
December 6, 2007
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
by Tim Jeal
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Surprises of the Empire
November 2, 2006
Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850
by Maya Jasanoff
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The Great Victorian Abroad
June 23, 2005
David Livingstone: Mission and Empire
by Andrew Ross
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Eastward Ho!
May 13, 2004
The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan
by Ben Macintyre
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Nobs & Nabobs
November 7, 2002
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire
by David Cannadine
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Little War, Big Mess
April 12, 2001
Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856 Trevor Royle
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The Man Who Would Be Good
May 25, 2000
The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 4: 1911-19
edited by Thomas Pinney
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The Empire’s New Clothes
February 24, 2000
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
by Karl E. Meyer, by Shareen Blair Brysac
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The Ballad of Federico García Lorca
November 4, 1999
Lorca: A Dream of Life
by Leslie Stainton
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Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
April 8, 1999
A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
by Mary S. Lovell
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Adrift in Iberia
October 5, 1995
The Stone Raft
by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
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Homage to Catalonia
June 11, 1992
Barcelona by Robert Hughes
Barcelonas by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, translated by Andy Robinson
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Desert Ruritania
March 26, 1992
Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, translated by Peter Theroux
The Trench by Abdelrahman Munif, translated by Peter Theroux