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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
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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Scottish explorers

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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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