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Tim Chamberlain 🧭
@waymarks.bsky.social
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Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
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Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social · Nov 10
I'm compiling a starter pack for 'Histories of Exploration & Travel Writing' 🧭 - If you'd like me to add (or remove) you from this list, please let me know. 🗃️ go.bsky.app/BRpcSXX
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jonwestaway.bsky.social
बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”

An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv

Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.

@waymarks.bsky.social @andrewwyatt.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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futuremountain.bsky.social
Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:43 AM
waymarks.bsky.social
Forthcoming for historians of exploration & film studies:

"Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance!" Sue Matheson, Cynthia J. Miller, eds. (Edinburgh University Press: June, 2026).

Full Info: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-explore...

#exploration #film #history #empire #place #gender 🗃️
Explorers on Screen
Explorers on Screen
edinburghuniversitypress.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India"

by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
TIBETAN GIFT-GIVING, BRITISH INDIFFERENCE, AND THE ERASURE OF PROVENANCE IN COLONIAL INDIA*
Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out @waymarks.bsky.social's review of @sbilston.bsky.social's "The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession," published in 2025 by @harvardpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #plantstudies
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October 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
waymarks.bsky.social
'Mountain Man' - glaciologist, Phuntsho Tshering, the only man permitted in Bhutan’s sacred mountains chronicles humanity’s impact.
The only man permitted in Bhutan’s sacred mountains chronicles humanity’s impact | Aeon Videos
A lone glaciologist performs spiritual and scientific rituals to assess humanity’s impact in Bhutan’s sacred mountains
aeon.co
September 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out @waymarks.bsky.social's review of @josephaseeley.bsky.social's "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria," published in 2024 by @cornellupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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Chamberlain on Seeley, 'Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria' | H-Net
Seeley, Joseph. Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria. : Cornell University Press, 2024. 210 pp. $23.95 (paper), ISBN 9781501777387. Reviewed by Tim Chamber...
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May 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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josephaseeley.bsky.social
"Border of Water and Ice is a fascinating, richly researched, and accessibly recounted history that will appeal to a wide range of scholars variously interested in empires, environments, borderlands, and area studies" Thank you @waymarks.bsky.social for the close reading!
May 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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markhorrell.bsky.social
🌟 New blog post ✍️

There have been many books about Sherpa mountaineers over the years, but few have been written from the perspective of Sherpas themselves ⛏️🗻

One that comes close is Sherpa by Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari, which I read recently 📚
www.markhorrell.com/blog/2025/12...
12 inspiring stories about the lives of Sherpa mountaineers
There have been many books about Sherpa mountaineers over the years, but few have been written from the perspective of Sherpas themselves. One that comes close is Sherpa by Pradeep Bashyal and Anki…
www.markhorrell.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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andrewszalay.bsky.social
Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Chomolungma 50 years ago this week. Jenny Hall recounts this milestone and considers why she isn't more celebrated:
theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
Fifty years ago, Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Everest – why do so few people know her story?
Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.
theconversation.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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mtoiv.bsky.social
I've just been alerted to @waymarks.bsky.social's PhD dissertation 'Empirical adventurers: Science and imperial exploration in East Tibet, 1900-1949', which is well worth a look here: eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/55.... Lots of interesting stuff happening in the mountain history space!
Birkbeck Institutional Research Online
eprints.bbk.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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shafikmeghji.bsky.social
Great to see Exploration Map by Map out in print. I had a blast writing about some epic feats of exploration & migration in Latin America, from the Mexica to Magellan.

Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned maps, it’s on sale now: www.dk.com/uk/book/9780...
The cover of Exploration Map by Map. A section on the Mexica. A section on the Magellan-Elcano expedition. A section on Orellan’s journey down the Amazon.
April 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Today's news reminds me of the first visit of women to the South Pole in 1969
April 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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timhannigan.bsky.social
Major new publication for the #TravelWriting Studies folk - Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing, edited by the dream-team of @afquaireau.bsky.social, Emanuelle Peraldo and Samia Ounoughi. Lots of excellent stuff in here and some interesting perspectives on contemporary work.
April 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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mtoiv.bsky.social
Book is happening – we've got a cover! 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka' coming later this year from Leiden University Press!
Cover of my book 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge', with an image of a tourist party at the top of the Borobudur temple complex on Java in the 1860s.
April 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
waymarks.bsky.social
'Kumano: Journey of a Maverick Scholar' | Japanology Plus: "Scholar Minakata Kumagusu made contributions to biology, folklore and other fields. He laid the foundation for environmental conservation in Japan. We explore the environments that inspired his work." www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
Kumano: Journey of a Maverick Scholar - Japanology Plus | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
*First broadcast on July 18, 2024. Scholar Minakata Kumagusu made contributions to biology, folklore and other fields. He laid the foundation for environmental conservation in Japan. We explore the en...
www3.nhk.or.jp
April 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Joseph Rock took stunning photographs of the Tibet-China borderlands between 1922 and 1935, funded in part by the National Geographic Society.

During this span, Rock wrote nine article for National Geographic; some were illustrated with gorgeous hand-colored prints. 🧵
🗃️ 🀄️📚 #WyrdWednesday
The image shows a performer in a traditional costume posing outdoors. The person is dressed in a vibrant and intricate costume resembling a skeleton, featuring red and white patterns over the body. The headpiece is a large mask with skeletal features, including a prominent circular face and exaggerated eyes. The costume includes a yellow and red skirt intended to depict a tiger skin. The individual stands on a stone-paved surface with one hand on their hip. Behind them, a group of monastics sit in the courtyard.
April 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
Our followers may be aware of the recent passing of Richard Fortey, a great palaeontologist and user of the Museum’s Library and Archives. A brilliant science communicator with a penchant for fungi and fungus gnats, his Dry Store Room No.1 was a classic. To us and many others, Richard was too.
April 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Naturalists' Notebooks exhibition at the lovely Linnean Society, London (11 March-20 September 2025, Tuesdays to Fridays).
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Naturalists' Notebooks
Explore the wealth of content available within The Linnean Society of London's website.
www.linnean.org
March 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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hpeaks.bsky.social
For the first time, we've compiled a Spring #TibetReadingList with over 25 titles available now for people of all ages!

Enjoy perusing the list and let us know what you're reading at the moment 📚

highpeakspureearth.com/high-peaks-p...
High Peaks Pure Earth Spring 2025 Tibet Reading List
High Peaks Pure Earth for the first time presents a Spring Tibet Reading List! This is the first Tibet Reading List to follow up the (end of) Summer 2024 Tibet Reading List and includes over 25 mor…
highpeakspureearth.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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cjdrury.bsky.social
Very excited to have my first article published! It's about why British mountaineers travelled to Norway in the nineteenth century and the transnational networks they formed. Open access in Studies in Travel Writing here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🏔️
William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910
In both William Cecil Slingsby’s Norway. The Northern Playground (1904) and Elizabeth Le Blond’s Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (1908), Norway is presented as an alternative destina...
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March 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
waymarks.bsky.social
It’s been a long time since I read ‘Voyage of the Narwhal’ and ‘Servants of the Map.’ Reading this makes me wonder if I should revisit them. lareviewofbooks.org/article/doub...
Double Vision and Full Dissolution | Los Angeles Review of Books
Alix Christie interviews Andrea Barrett about “Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction.”
lareviewofbooks.org
February 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
waymarks.bsky.social
CFP Edited Collection: "Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm" via H-HistGeog: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️
CFP Edited Collection: Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm | H-Net
Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm (edited collection)
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February 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
waymarks.bsky.social
"Everest through the lens" - another chance to see the exhibition marking the centenary of the first Everest expeditions in the 1920s @rgsibg.bsky.social (20 Jan 2025 - 15 Apr 2025, Monday-Friday: 10.00am-5.00pm, free entry) www.rgs.org/events/upcom... [1/2]
Everest through the lens - RGS
Everest through the lens is back. Explore how John Noel's films shaped the public's imagination of Everest, and obscured the role of local intermediaries.
www.rgs.org
February 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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cjdrury.bsky.social
BBC News - Frozen in time: Rare early images of the Himalayas from Italian pioneer
www.bbc.com/news/article...
In pictures: An Italian photographer's earliest images of the majestic Himalayas
Vittorio Sella's work shaped both mountain photography and mountaineering history.
www.bbc.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM