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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
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Extraordinary people…

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  • Kintup and the Tsangpo Gorge
  • George Mallory
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  • Freya Stark
  • Annie Taylor
  • Bertram Thomas
  • Hubert Wilkins
  • Isobel Wylie Hutchison

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July 13, 2016November 18, 2016

‘The Flying Years’

A beautiful poem, published anonymously in 1926 but attributed to the Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins

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Africa, General  5 Comments

June 27, 2016December 20, 2016

Horses’ heads to the east, and other rules of RSGS membership

It’s 1886, and we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the Society with an elegant ‘conversazione’ – but be careful where you park your horse

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General  5 Comments

May 23, 2016November 18, 2016

John Simpson: in the eye of the storm

A familiar face on British news channels, John Simpson was awarded the Mungo Park Medal of the RSGS in 2003

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April 4, 2016November 18, 2016

Wise words: Sir David Attenborough

“I know of no pleasure deeper than that which comes from contemplating the natural world and trying to understand it.” Sir David Attenborough, ‘Life on Air‘

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March 26, 2016November 18, 2016

Patrick Geddes: heart, hand and head

A scientist and a revolutionary, Patrick Geddes taught us not just about the living world, but about life itself

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