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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

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Frederick Marshman Bailey
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James Croll
Patrick Geddes
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Kintup and the Tsangpo Gorge
George Mallory
John Murray
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Fridtjof Nansen
Robert Falcon Scott
Ernest Shackleton
John Simpson
William Speirs Bruce
Henry Morton Stanley
Freya Stark
Annie Taylor
Bertram Thomas
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Antarctic, Arctic, General, Women explorers

August 30, 2016February 5, 2017

Book review: ‘Heart of the Hero’ by Kari Herbert

A wonderful book telling the lesser-known stories of exploration – of the wives who were left behind, and those who went with their husbands into the unknown

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