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Jo Woolf

Writer in Residence at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society

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Blog posts

  • 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

Extraordinary people…

  • 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

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polar exploration

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Arctic  9 Comments

February 6, 2017

Fridtjof Nansen

“Our order was, Death or the west coast of Greenland. In this way it was accomplished.”

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Antarctic  6 Comments

December 2, 2016

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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Antarctic  6 Comments

July 26, 2016November 18, 2016

‘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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Arctic, Women explorers  12 Comments

June 19, 2016October 4, 2018

Isobel Wylie Hutchison: the Calling of Bride

A gentle Scotswoman whose love of botany drew her to the lands of the far north

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Antarctic, Scotland  11 Comments

February 28, 2016October 21, 2021

William Speirs Bruce: Scotland’s Antarctic hero

Quietly determined and fiercely patriotic, in 1902 William Speirs Bruce carried the Saltire to the Antarctic on his ship, the Scotia

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