Freya Stark: footprints in the sand
Bewitched by the Middle East, Freya Stark was a complex blend of fragility and wilfulness
Bewitched by the Middle East, Freya Stark was a complex blend of fragility and wilfulness
“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‘
Quietly determined and fiercely patriotic, in 1902 William Speirs Bruce carried the Saltire to the Antarctic on his ship, the Scotia
“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
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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