Celebrating some of the extraordinary lecturers who visited the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in its early years…
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explorers
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.”
Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Silk Roads
7th May 1888, and a letter to the RSGS from an eminent German geographer
‘A born leader of men’: Sir Ernest Shackleton in Edinburgh
On a freezing winter night, an enthusiastic audience gathered to hear one of the greatest polar heroes of them all
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Jo Woolf 
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