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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
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Extraordinary people…

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  • James Croll
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  • Frank Kingdon Ward
  • Kintup and the Tsangpo Gorge
  • George Mallory
  • John Murray
  • W H Murray
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  • Robert Falcon Scott
  • Ernest Shackleton
  • John Simpson
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  • Henry Morton Stanley
  • Freya Stark
  • Annie Taylor
  • Bertram Thomas
  • Hubert Wilkins
  • Isobel Wylie Hutchison

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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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April 4, 2016November 18, 2016

Wise words: Sir David Attenborough

“I know of no pleasure deeper than that which comes from contemplating the natural world and trying to understand it.” Sir David Attenborough, ‘Life on Air‘

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General, Things they said  10 Comments

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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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January 29, 2016November 18, 2016

Things they said: Sir Edmund Hillary

“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.” Sir Edmund Hillary

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Asia, General, Himalayas, Things they said  2 Comments

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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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