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
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Arabia

April 13, 2016September 25, 2018

Freya Stark: footprints in the sand

Bewitched by the Middle East, Freya Stark was a complex blend of fragility and wilfulness

August 4, 2015November 18, 2016

Bertram Thomas: gentleman, diplomat and desert wanderer

A journey across Arabia’s Empty Quarter is not for the faint-hearted. It was accomplished first by Bertram Thomas, a quiet gentleman who was in love with the desert

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