Programme 2003-2004
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2003 | Speaker |
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October | 9 | Paul Goldstein | India Spiced Up Rajasthan - The Ganges - Varanasi - plus superb photographs of the wildlife. Paul has recently won 1st prize in the The Royal Geographic Society for his photographs of wildlife. |
October | 22 | Denise Heywood | Descending the Land of the Ascending Dragon Vietnam's animated cities, seascapes, ancient culture, lovely people. |
November | 5 | Helen Bentley | Racing round the Oceans the wrong way An ordinary nurse's extraordinary voyage in the 1996/7 BT Global Challenge. |
November | 19 | Social |
Annual Social for Members |
December | 3 | Guy Mansell | Voyage to the Land of the Midnight Sun Arctic Norway's mountains and fjords, northern lights, the Saami and their reindeer. |
December | 17 | Catherine Hopper | Bhutan – the Last Buddhist Kingdom Life today in a tiny and beautiful Himalayan Buddhist kingdom. |
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January | 7 | Angela Rixon and Peter Crook |
Aspects of Africa – Predators and Prey Wildlife and natural history photographers in love with Africa. |
January | 21 | Vic Quaile | By 4X4 round South America The Inca Trail Rally – 15,000 miles in just seven weeks. |
February | 4 | Elisabeth Parry | Northwest Passage From Baffin Island to Greenland, aboard a Russian research vessel. |
February | 18 | George Band | Return to Everest Recalling the dramas of the first ascent and telling of the climbers and sherpas. |
March | 3 | Norma Joseph | And the Dawn came up like Thunder The great Irrawaddy River, by whatever local craft. |
March | 17 | Audrey Olley | Galapagos – the Enchanted Islands Meet the unique wildlife of the islands, giant tortoises, iguanas, etc. |
March | 31 | John Gimlette | At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig Paraguay portrayed with humour, insight and deftness of touch. |
April | 14 | AGM & Don Mitchell | To China, in search of Steam and Culture |