41. Lucy Shepherd: Into the Wild
Lucy Shepherd is an explorer, a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the youngest ever elected council member of the Scientific Exploration Society. Leading a small all-Indigenous Amerindian team into Guyana’s Amazon rainforest, Shepherd travelled through dense jungle and treacherous rivers, enduring hunger, injury and illness along the way. The team were under constant threat: bushmaster snakes, jaguars, caiman alligators, fire ants and flesh-burrowing parasites. Hear Shepherd recount her fifty-day long adventure into one of the Earth’s last truly wild places.
Simon began as a newspaper journalist and worked for the Telegraph & Argus for a decade. He covered music, arts, news and sport. He has hosted a show on BCB 106.6FM for more than 20 years. Simon was previously chair of Ilkley Literature Festival's board of trustees and presents events each autumn.
Event Details
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- Date: Saturday 10th October
- Time: 3:45 pm
- Price£12/9 concessions
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