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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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March 23, 2016November 18, 2016

Things they said: Sir Patrick Geddes

“We live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

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January 29, 2016November 18, 2016

Things they said: Sir Edmund Hillary

“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.” Sir Edmund Hillary

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General, Scotland  6 Comments

January 26, 2016November 18, 2016

James Croll – Perth’s forgotten philosopher

Born in Perthshire, James Croll defied humble beginnings and persistent illness to become one of the world’s foremost thinkers on geology, cosmology, and the Earth’s ice ages

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General, Scotland  15 Comments

December 21, 2015August 6, 2018

Bill Murray, Alastair Cram and the art of escape

When Monopoly was more than just a board game… Following my post on Bill Murray, I take a look inside the carefully obscured world of escape gadgets and secret coding

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General, Oceans  5 Comments

June 10, 2015November 18, 2016

How many explorers?

Why am I here, and what am I doing in the archives of the RSGS? I’ll try to explain!

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