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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

The Geographer – quarterly newsletter of the RSGS

The Geographer - RSGS

Blog post on Mary Kingsley for Dangerous Women Project

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General, Women explorers  6 Comments

June 14, 2018June 14, 2018

Free spirits: 5 women explorers and travel writers

These incredible women set off for the furthest reaches of the globe, from the Gobi Desert to Arctic Canada, and their books are a lasting tribute to their achievements

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Asia, Desert  3 Comments

April 13, 2016September 25, 2018

Freya Stark: footprints in the sand

Bewitched by the Middle East, Freya Stark was a complex blend of fragility and wilfulness

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