As ever, there are some absolutely scintillating book reviews in this week’s issue of the magazine. Here is a selection:
Sam Leith revels in ‘a blindly good story extremely well told’: Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of Russian America by Owen Matthews.
‘Like most if not all imperial adventures, the civilising mission (ho ho) followed the money.
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