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Jo Woolf

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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

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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RSGS

August 15, 2017August 18, 2017

Lecturers at the RSGS: the mystic, the future king, and the man who brought shrunken heads

Celebrating some of the extraordinary lecturers who visited the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in its early years…

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Africa, Americas, Antarctic, Asia, General, Himalayas, Women explorers  8 Comments

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Africa, General  5 Comments

June 27, 2016December 20, 2016

Horses’ heads to the east, and other rules of RSGS membership

It’s 1886, and we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the Society with an elegant ‘conversazione’ – but be careful where you park your horse

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Oceans, Things they said  2 Comments

May 13, 2016November 18, 2016

Things they said: Thor Heyerdahl

“Nature itself is like a hearth – we can revive the fire wherever there are embers.” – Thor Heyerdahl

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General, Scotland  6 Comments

January 26, 2016November 18, 2016

James Croll – Perth’s forgotten philosopher

Born in Perthshire, James Croll defied humble beginnings and persistent illness to become one of the world’s foremost thinkers on geology, cosmology, and the Earth’s ice ages

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General, Scotland  15 Comments

December 21, 2015August 6, 2018

Bill Murray, Alastair Cram and the art of escape

When Monopoly was more than just a board game… Following my post on Bill Murray, I take a look inside the carefully obscured world of escape gadgets and secret coding

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