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Isobel Wylie Hutchison was many things: a botanist, traveller, poet
and artist. She travelled solo throughout the arctic collecting
plant samples, wrote and published extensive volumes of essays and
poetry, and was - in short - one of the most remarkable Scottish
figures of her time. However, since her death in 1982 her legacy
has been forgotten compared with her male counterparts. Now Isobel
can speak for herself again. While better known for her solo
journeys across the Arctic, these essays detail Isobel's journeys
across Scotland, including visits to Skye, John O' Groats and the
various literary shrines across the country. Written with
characteristic wit and a keen interest in both science and myth and
folklore, the essays serve as important cultural markers not just
of Scotland as it was and has developed, but of a woman's
experience of travelling alone and a testament to the importance of
cultural connection, exploration and communication.
Town planning. Interest-led, open-minded education. Preservation of
buildings with historical worth. All are so central to modern
society that our age tends to claim these notions as its own. In
fact they were first visualised by Sir Patrick Geddes, a largely
forgotten Victorian Scot and one of the greatest forward thinkers
in history. In turns a gardener, biologist, conservationist, social
evolutionist and town planner, he spent many years conserving and
restoring Edinburgh’s historic Royal Mile at a time when most
decaying buildings were simply torn down. With these plans of
renovation came the importance of education – as the development
of the Outlook Tower, his numerous summer schools and his Collège
des Ecossais in Montpellier illustrate. It is in India where his
name is most widely known. It was here that possibly the greatest
example of Geddes’ belief in ‘people planning’ can be seen
and which took the form of pedestrian zones, student accommodation
for women, and urban diversification projects in Edinburgh. Indeed,
his influence travelled around the world, through the people he met
and inspired, and has survived after his death.
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