Celebrating some of the extraordinary lecturers who visited the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in its early years…
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exploration
Mildred Cable, Eva and Francesca French
Three extraordinary women who travelled along the Silk Road and faced death threats as an occupational hazard
Fridtjof Nansen
“Our order was, Death or the west coast of Greenland. In this way it was accomplished.”
Annie Taylor: breaking into Tibet, with cold tea and a Christmas pudding
The story of one woman’s absolute determination to cross one of the most dangerous landscapes on Earth
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Voices from the Antarctic: Scott and Shackleton at the RSGS
“They lit their pipes by the midnight sun with the aid of a burning glass.”
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Jo Woolf 
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