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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

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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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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