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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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Tibet

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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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Asia, Himalayas 7 Comments

September 21, 2015November 18, 2016

The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorge – part two

A plant collector and a British spy… two intrepid explorers, lured by the mystery of an unexplored canyon and the ‘Lost Falls’ of the Brahmaputra

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Asia, Women explorers 11 Comments

June 24, 2015March 5, 2018

Isabella Bird – free spirit and fearless explorer

At a time when women were confined to the polite parlours of Victorian society, Isabella Bird allowed her independent spirit to run free

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