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Jo Woolf

Writer in Residence at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society

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  • Free spirits: 5 women explorers and travel writers
  • Lecturers at the RSGS: the mystic, the future king, and the man who brought shrunken heads
  • Mildred Cable, Eva and Francesca French
  • Fridtjof Nansen
  • Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Silk Roads

Extraordinary people…

  • Frederick Marshman Bailey
  • Isabella Bird
  • Fanny Bullock Workman
  • James Croll
  • Patrick Geddes
  • Frank Kingdon Ward
  • Kintup and the Tsangpo Gorge
  • George Mallory
  • John Murray
  • W H Murray
  • Fridtjof Nansen
  • Robert Falcon Scott
  • Ernest Shackleton
  • John Simpson
  • William Speirs Bruce
  • Henry Morton Stanley
  • Freya Stark
  • Annie Taylor
  • Bertram Thomas
  • Hubert Wilkins
  • Isobel Wylie Hutchison

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June 14, 2018June 14, 2018

Free spirits: 5 women explorers and travel writers

These incredible women set off for the furthest reaches of the globe, from the Gobi Desert to Arctic Canada, and their books are a lasting tribute to their achievements

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August 15, 2017August 18, 2017

Lecturers at the RSGS: the mystic, the future king, and the man who brought shrunken heads

Celebrating some of the extraordinary lecturers who visited the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in its early years…

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Africa, Americas, Antarctic, Asia, General, Himalayas, Women explorers  8 Comments

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November 16, 2016December 2, 2016

Sir Ernest Shackleton: a driving force at the RSGS

In 1904, when Shackleton took up his post as Secretary of the RSGS, his arrival caused quite a stir…

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August 30, 2016February 5, 2017

Book review: ‘Heart of the Hero’ by Kari Herbert

A wonderful book telling the lesser-known stories of exploration – of the wives who were left behind, and those who went with their husbands into the unknown

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August 18, 2016December 4, 2016

Things they said: Sir Archibald Geikie

An insight into the perceptive mind of 19th century geologist Sir Archibald Geikie

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