2013-2014
Illustrated Public Talks
motivational stories of adventure expertise on vital current issues inspirational insights into people, places & planet 37 inspiring speakers • 90 fascinating talks • 13 locations Dave MacLeod - Extreme Climbs
Clifton Bain is Director of
Tom Christian manages the
the IUCN UK Peatland Programme,
National Tree Collections of Scotland initiative and the iCONic project at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Both projects, helping to safeguard threatened tree species by creating conservation collections in Scotland, have taken him on plant collecting expeditions around the world.
which exists to promote peatland restoration. Scotland holds 15% of the world’s blanket bog, so peatlands such as the Flow Country are vitally important for plants, animals and carbon storage.
Col John BlashfordDr Andrew Cook shares Snell, a renowned explorer himself, his research into the personal uses early images and HM Stanley’s original magic lantern slides to tell the story of David Livingstone’s remarkable expeditions and his fight against slavery. He aims to reveal the real Livingstone, his achievements, his failures and his
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correspondence of the Goodsir family, held by the RSGS. Harry Goodsir was the surgeon on Captain Sir John Franklin’s 1845 voyage of Arctic exploration, whose sad final fate was uncovered by the explorer John Rae.
wife of David Livingstone. Often seen as a shadow in the blaze of her husband’s sun, Mary played an
John Blashford-Snell - The Legend of Livingstone
important role in his success, and her own feats as an early western traveller in uncharted Africa are unique.
Matt Dickinson, a filmmaker and writer who specialises in wild places and indigenous peoples, celebrates Isobel Wylie Hutchison, a pioneering film-maker and RSGS
Matt Dickinson - Retracing Isobel Wylie Hutchison’s Footsteps
medallist who created a unique record of Arctic life in the 1920s, focusing on landscape, wildflowers and people’s daily lives.
David Edwards witnessed
Julie Davidson tells the
the eruptions and evacuations that
story of her search for Mary, the extraordinarily courageous and stoical
In 2011 he went back to see how the
changed Montserrat’s destiny in 1995.
Ian Edwards - Woodlanders: New Life in Britain’s Forests
island had recovered and to revisit areas which had been destroyed. He explores the major challenges that a community faces having lost twothirds of its land space.
Ian Edwards returned to Scotland, after years exploring forests in the Tropics, to document the ‘New
Richard Else - Thirty Years at the Sharp Edge
Woodlanders’ who are breathing new life into Scotland’s native woods. Following a large replanting programme, there has been a resurgence in forest culture, with more people than ever working or playing in the woods. Kari Herbert - Heart of the Hero
Tim Emmett - Global Freezing!
RSGS: helping to make the connections between people, places & the planet