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Peter Schindler

The Roads of China

Olympic House

        
In a light-hearted and amusing start to the Society's new season, Peter Schindler tells the story of his recent 22,000km drive around China in a little yellow motorcar.

23

Julian Bickersteth

Scott of the Antarctic

British Consulate

 

Julian Bickersteth, curator of the huts of Captain Robert Scott on Antarctica, recounts the story of one of the greatest explorers of all time, together with his personal account of the restoration of the huts and of the preservation of the 15,000 artefacts that still survive from the great era of Antarctic exploration.           

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Wong How Man

The Yellow River

Olympic House

       

China’s greatest explorer returns to tell the gripping story of the search for the source of the Yellow River.