Royal Geographical Society

MC 's Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society is mentioned without comment by various sources, but it was in fact highly controversial. The Society had included a handful of female Fellows since 1884, but purely...

The Royal Geographical Society in London invited IB to speak to them in 1891 after her travels through India and Persia; she was the first woman they had ever asked. She declined because the Society...

When the Scottish Society was incorporated by the Royal Geographical Society in London, she was named a fellow by the English as well as the Scottish society, the first woman to be so honoured...

RF was internationally recognised as a traveller by being elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society , as well of several parallel institutions in other countries.

Recommended by the Book Society and the Book Guild , The Southern Gates of Arabia also received high praise in the Daily Telegraph, among other papers. FS , rather surprisingly, was compared to Jane Austen

IB , already a member of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , became the first woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.

IB became the first woman to address the Royal Geographical Society ; she spoke to the society about her five-month-long journey in northwest China.

The Royal Geographical Society of Britain awarded MS its Victoria Gold Medal.

This volume covers the years 1928-33, during which FS established her reputation both as a traveller (winning the Back Memorial Grant of the Royal Geographical Society and the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Her papers, formerly held by the London publishing house of John Murray , are now in the National Library of Scotland . Both the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society hold some...

EKM published a number of introductions or contributions to the works of others: about ski-ing, sailing, travel, and her philosophy of travel. She wrote articles for the Royal Society for Central Asian Studies and the...

With John Speke and sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society , RFB sought in Africa for the source of the Nile, covering what is now Sudan and Uganda.

Stark received the Royal Geographical Society 's Founder's Gold Medal for her efforts, though the trip was marred from an early stage by the travellers' physical illnesses and personal conflicts. However, Stark left having pinpointed...