“We live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”
General
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
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
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
How many explorers?
Why am I here, and what am I doing in the archives of the RSGS? I’ll try to explain!
Jo Woolf 