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05
Nov
2009
Nick Smith reviews ‘The Shackleton Letters’ in Bookdealer magazine, ...

4 days ago by nicksmithphoto

Yours faithfully, Ernest Shackleton Nick Smith reviews The Shackleton Letters: Behind the Scenes of the Nimrod Expedition By Regina W Daly, Erskine Press, HB, £27.50 The trouble with history of course is that it’s not really very good at telling you what happened. It creates reputations and myths th ...

nick smith writer - nicksmithphoto.wordpress.com · 4 references

03
Nov
2009
How to become an Explorer

6 days ago by Frank

What is Explore? Ever wanted to plan your own expedition? Raise funds? Learn how to communicate and navigate, deal with logistics and politics when you’re on the road, or find out what to do with all that information and experience when you’re back? Then you need to get yourself along to EXPLORE – t ...

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24
Oct
2009
Ha Mokati Rock Art Site, Lesotho

16 days ago by Quintin Lake

Suggested interpretation. Note that the reconstruction has been done with reference to Images of Power and other seminal works but remains tentative – above all the top left figure. Lesotho Rock Art Survey 2000 is a Royal Geographical Society Sponsored expedition which discovered 10 previously unrec ...

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Lesotho Rock Art Survey 2000: Expedition Report

16 days ago by Quintin Lake

Download the full expedition report as a PDF here A printed copy of the report is also available to view at: Department of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and the Cambridge University Expedition Society Posted in Assignments, Expedition, Photography, Publicat ...

Quintin Lake Photography Blog - blog.quintinlake.com

15
Oct
2009
The Drowning Islands

25 days ago by Tavurvur

Dan Box travelled to Bougainville after winning a competition run by the Royal Geographical Society and the BBC. As the winner of the annual Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Journey of a Lifetime Award, Dan traveled to the islands to witness the first wave of the Carterets Islanders’ evacuation ...

Tubuans & Dukduks - garamut.wordpress.com · Rank: 159,950 · 6 references

01
Oct
2009
Free Medical Training for Production Companies working in Remote Locations

39 days ago by Mark Hannaford

December 3rd 2009 09.00 – 13.00 Royal Geographical Society, London This is a free training seminar, limited to 25 places, for people involved in filming abroad in locations where medical cover is not close at hand. It will highlight the biggest risks and you will learn how to administer immediate ca ...

Expedition & Wilderness ... - expeditionmedicine.wordpress.com · 1 reference

28
Sep
2009
Top Gear Live Takes Off

42 days ago by topgearlivenz

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May officially launched this year’s Top Gear Live World Tour today September 25 th 2009, from London’s Royal Geographical Society (RGS) in true Phileas Fogg-style; suspended below a hot air balloon. Famed for their legendary globe-trotting antics, the three ...

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26
Aug
2009
Dr. Burnett, I presume: A private conversation with Mark Burnett about ...

75 days ago by TV Guy

No doubt, all of five people will watch Expedition Africa, Mark Burnett's latest reality show which bows this coming Wednesday — Sept. 2 — on the History TV specialty channel, and that seems a shame. Expedition Africa, in which four modern-day explorers, each one an expert in his or her chosen field ...

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Nick Smith reviews Robin Hanbury-Tenison’s new book ‘The Land of ...

75 days ago by nicksmithphoto

Breughelesque farmers in Byronic landscapes Nick Smith reviews Robin Hanbury-Tenison’s ‘The Land of Eagles: Riding through Europe’s Forgotten Country’ The trouble with the Balkans, Winston Churchill is supposed to have said, is they create more history than they can consume. And while, as with so ma ...

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Nick Smith reviews Christopher Ondaatje’s ‘Woolf in Ceylon’ in the ...

75 days ago by nicksmithphoto

Candour in Kandy Nick Smith reviews Christopher Ondaatje’s ‘Woolf in Ceylon’ Christopher Ondaatje’s best book to date is a refreshingly creative illustrated biography of Leonard Woolf in the years preceding the Great War. Woolf in Ceylon is simultaneously a reconstruction of its subject’s term of of ...

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