9 days ago by Frank

Over the last few weeks readers of both my book and blog have been asking me how they can get involved in some of the adventurous activities that I like to get up to in my own life. So over the next few weeks I’ll be writing a series of short articles that give you ideas on how you can join expediti ...

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10 days ago by EcoNut

Lord Nicholas Stern, economist and author of the acclaimed and much-discussed Stern Review of 2006, spoke recently at the Royal Geographical Society about the world’s major problems and his suggested solutions to them. This, in summary, is what he said. The two great issues of the 21st century – pov ...

My Carbon Footprints - mycarbonfootprints.net · 1 reference

16 days ago by nicksmithphoto

Letting India speak for itself Nick Smith reviews, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, b y William Dalrymple A lot’s changed in the two decades since the young William Dalrymple published his first book In Xanadu. India has changed, the world has changed and so too has travel writin ...

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26 days ago by Lou

From Forest School to Freedom It’s 10 years since the Nyaru Menteng (NM10) orang-utan rescue and rehabilitation centre opened in Borneo. Last night, founder, Lone Droscher-Nielsen was in London to talk about her team’s work to save this endangered species, and to raise much-needed funds. Recognisabl ...

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33 days ago by mikael

The ex-pat camp in the Wahiba Sands. We went here with Mark Evans and his friends over the weekend, a lovely break from Muscat-life.... Pain! Woke up early this morning after sleeping 10 hours. Exhausted after a visit to the Wahiba Sands, the great soothing desert, but no sleep at all. Tooth-ache. I ...

Explorer Mikael Strandberg - mikaelstrandberg.com · 2 references

35 days ago by Frank

If you want to be an explorer get yourself along to the Royal Geographical Society for the EXPLORE weekend in London and find out about all the opportunities open to you. Starts this Friday, the 13th of November with drinks and an opening lecture from George McGavin. Full details on the talk below, ...

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42 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 ...

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44 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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54 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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54 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 ...

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