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Old photograph from 1898 showing the Grand Canyon from a viewpoint in Arizona.

Travelsphere

From December 2024 the Society has partnered with Travelsphere, a specialist in escorted touring for more than 60 years. The partnership is underpinned by a shared commitment to purposeful travel, inspiring insight in travellers and a dedication to work with and in support of those communities and environments visited by the tours.

To date, the Society has partnered with Travelsphere on seven tour itineraries, which include Japan, Italy, Canada, United States, South America, India and Nepal, and Central Asia.

Each selected itinerary travels in the footsteps of some of the world's pre-eminent scientists, geographers and travellers and visits regions or countries represented within the Society’s Collections.

Materials supporting Travelsphere’s Royal Geographical Society Collection itineraries

Various Collection materials are used in support of Travelsphere’s Society Collection itineraries. These include a watercolour of Cuzco by Victor Coverley-Price (1932), a map of Lake Titicaca, Peru (1900), illustrations from Isabella Bird’s book ‘Unbeaten tracks in Japan’ (1880), a watercolour of the Durbar at Noyakot, Nepal by Rajman Singh Chitrakar (1852), and more.

A watercolour painting of Cuzco with by Victor Coverley-Price depicting a church and local people.
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Cuzco. Watercolour by Victor Coverley-Price, 1932.
  • A watercolour painting of Cuzco with by Victor Coverley-Price depicting a church and local people.
  • Map of Lake Titicaca, located partly in Peru and partly in Bolivia. Relief is shown by hachures and the prime meridian is Paris. The map shows among other things ancient ruins, sanctuaries, towns and rivers,
  • Illustration from ‘Unbeaten tracks in Japan’ by Isabella Bird showing the entrance to the Shrine of Seventh Shôgun, Shiba, Tokyo, with two people in front of the shrine.
  • Early 19th century photograph of three geishas on jin rickshaws pulled by three men.
  • Black and white photograph of Niagara Falls with people standing in snow and viewing the waterfall from below.
  • Black and white photograph of two horse riders watching over a large, desolate plain at the foot of the Rockies.
  • Old photograph from 1898 showing the Grand Canyon from a viewpoint in Arizona.
  • Watercolour painting of a Turkish nomad tent with camels and people in front of it.
  • Old photograph of the Shakhzinde at Samarkand (1913).
  • Old black and white photograph of the Taj Mahal in Agra’s facade.
  • Watercolour painting of the Durbar at Noyako, Nepal, 1852.

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