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Songlines: Travel, song and creation

Posted: September 28th, 2018

Songlines, or Dreaming Tracks, are routes that criss-cross Australia, some running thousands of miles from coast to coast. Within the animist belief system of Indigenous Australian peoples, a songline is a path which follows the route taken by ancestral creation spirits during the Alcheringa (or Dreamtime), a “time out of time” when ancestral animal beings […]

Largest ever all-female expedition to Antarctica: exploration, adventure travel and gender

Posted: September 25th, 2017

September 2017 The Homeward Bound project is recruiting for its third all-female expedition to the Antarctic which, with over 80 participants, is set to be the biggest ever all-female expedition to the continent. The aims of the project are to “heighten the influence and impact of women with a science background in order to influence […]