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Talking and (silly) walking

danbox wrote 3 weeks ago: I gave the Monday Night Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society about the Carterets journey this w … more →

Tags: Journey of a Lifetime

1999-2009: Ten Years Saving Orang-utans

Lou wrote 1 month ago: From Forest School to Freedom It’s 10 years since the Nyaru Menteng (NM10) orang-utan rescue and reh … more →

Tags: Environment, london by night, BBC, Borneo Orangutan Survival, BOS, déforestation, From Forest School to Freedom, Kensington, London

Nick Smith reviews 'The Shackleton Letters' in Bookdealer magazine, November 2009 edition

nicksmithphoto wrote 2 months ago: Yours faithfully, Ernest Shackleton Nick Smith reviews The Shackleton Letters: Behind the Scenes of … more →

Tags: explorer, explorers journal, Bookdealer, Antarctica, polar regions, Nimrod, Book Review, Exploration, Ernest Shackleton

The Drowning Islands1 comment

Tavurvur wrote 2 months ago: Dan  Box travelled to Bougainville after winning a competition run by the Royal Geographical Society … more →

Tags: PNG & Bougainville, PNG & Climate Change, BBC, Bougainville, Carteret Islands, Carterets, climate change, Dan Box, Drowning Islands

Free Medical Training for Media Production Companies working in Remote Locations

Mark Hannaford wrote 3 months ago: Medical Training for Media Production Companies December 3rd 2009 09.00 – 13.00 Royal Geographical S … more →

Tags: adventure, Arctic Medicine, Desert Medicine, diving and marine medicine, Expedition, Expedition Doctor, Expedition Medicine, Film and Media medical support, jungle medicine

Top Gear Live Takes Off

topgearlivenz wrote 3 months ago: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May officially launched this year’s Top Gear Live World T … more →

Tags: hot air balloon, James May, Jeremy Clarkson, London, Richard Hammond, top gear live, World Tour

Nick Smith reviews Robin Hanbury-Tenison's new book 'The Land of Eagles' in August 2009 Bookdealer magazine

nicksmithphoto wrote 4 months ago: Breughelesque farmers in Byronic landscapes Nick Smith reviews Robin Hanbury-Tenison’s ‘ … more →

Tags: Book Review, Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Sunday Times, Albania, Land of Eagles, Thomas Cook Travel Book of the Year, Wilfred Thesiger, Lord Byron, Edward Gibbon

Nick Smith reviews Christopher Ondaatje's 'Woolf in Ceylon' in the Literary Review (archive stuff)

nicksmithphoto wrote 4 months ago: Candour in Kandy Nick Smith reviews Christopher Ondaatje’s ‘Woolf in Ceylon’ Christopher Ondaatje … more →

Tags: explorer, Book Review, Exploration, Christopher Ondaatje, Leonard Woolf, Ceylon, Sri Lanka, Woolf in Ceylon, British Empire

Lord Aberdare elected to sit in Lords after hereditary peers by-election

ispystrangers wrote 5 months ago: The Clerk of the Parliaments announced the result of the by-election to elect a Cross-Bench heredita … more →

Tags: Lords, procedure, Lords Reform, Lord Aberdare, elected hereditary peer, election of peer, crossbench, Viscount Bledisloe, IBM

A Man And Place Of Extremes

clarionfriends wrote 6 months ago: You last saw Percy Harrison Fawcett with Indiana Jones in the 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hi … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Percy Harrison Fawcett, indiana jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark, amazon exploration, mapping South America, michael heckenberger, The Ecology of Power, David Grann

Moving Journeys: An Exhibition of Photographs of the Colonial Punjab

Raza Rumi wrote 7 months ago: Photographs of the Punjab taken by London’s Royal Geographical Society (RGS) members during th … more →

Tags: lahore, Pakistan, LUMS, punjab, History, colonial, Photographs

Nick Smith's feature on Iran in Geographical magazine, June 2009 (full text)

nicksmithphoto wrote 7 months ago: A new dawn for Iran? Ever since the Islamic Revolution in the 1970s Iran has been something of a clo … more →

Tags: Iran, Persia, Simoon Travel, Nick Smith, Robert Byron, Silk Road, Persepolis, Esfahan, Yazd

Would I Live In America? In A Heartbeat

Sarah Couto wrote 7 months ago: Stephen Fry gave the inaugural Spectator Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society on America’ … more →

Tags: US, Stephen Fry, inaugural, Spectator, america's place in the world, material culure

Here we go....

zerzura wrote 7 months ago: Thursday night. Folk start arriving for the RGS Overland Workshop tomorrow. I am still up at 20 to m … more →

Tags: Life, the Universe and...., Land Rover, overland

Holy cats....

zerzura wrote 7 months ago: Madly busy at the mo setting up the Royal Geographical Society Overland Travel Workshop here north o … more →

Tags: Life, the Universe and...., Land Rover, overland

A moment of pride for a brilliant son of Mysore 16 comments

churumuri wrote 7 months ago: churumuri.com is delighted to join in the celebrations at noted wildlife biologist M.D. Madhusudan b … more →

Tags: Kannada & Karnataka, Mysore-Bangalore, People, Arunachal Macaque, BBC, CFTRI School, churumuri, Green Oscar, M.D. Madhusudan

Shah 'Abbas – review of exhibition and catalogue as appeared in April 2009 Bookdealer

nicksmithphoto wrote 9 months ago: For those who asked to see my review, but couldn’t get hold of the magazine, here it is in ful … more →

Tags: Press notifications (words only), Iran, Shah 'Abass, Persia, Bookdealer

Famous faces at Edinburgh University

carasulieman wrote 11 months ago: By Cara Sulieman TWO FAMOUS explorers are coming to Scotland to share their experiences from travell … more →

Tags: 1, Edinburgh, News, Scotland, deadline, Edinburgh University, Eastern Europe, George Square, UK

Famous faces at Edinburgh University

carasulieman wrote 11 months ago: By Cara Sulieman TWO FAMOUS explorers are coming to Scotland to share their experiences from travell … more →

Tags: 1, Edinburgh, News, Scotland, deadline, Edinburgh University, Eastern Europe, George Square, UK


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