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
Isabella Bird
Fanny Bullock Workman
James Croll
Patrick Geddes
Frank Kingdon Ward
Kintup and the Tsangpo Gorge
George Mallory
John Murray
W H Murray
Fridtjof Nansen
Robert Falcon Scott
Ernest Shackleton
John Simpson
William Speirs Bruce
Henry Morton Stanley
Freya Stark
Annie Taylor
Bertram Thomas
Hubert Wilkins
Isobel Wylie Hutchison

The Geographer – quarterly newsletter of the RSGS

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Asia, Women explorers 4 Comments

December 9, 2016March 5, 2018

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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Himalayas, Scotland 6 Comments

December 4, 2015November 18, 2016

Bill Murray: a quiet man with a great vision

When mountaineer Bill Murray was captured by German soldiers in 1942, he had to find a way for his spirit to break free…

October 26, 2015November 18, 2016

George Mallory – from life to legend

A mountaineer whose name is forever linked with Everest, George Mallory had an aura that drew people towards him – and you can still sense it, even today

Himalayas 6 Comments