Leading lady
As women in Scotland were enjoying the wider freedoms of the Roaring Twenties, their horizons were expanding. They had grown up as steam ships, airplanes, telephones, and movies were starting to shrink the world.
For the most part, global exploration was a male domain, but a small number of women set off on their own ambitious journeys. One of the most intrepid Scottish female travellers was Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Born in 1889 near Edinburgh, Isobel spent the 1920s and 1930s exploring the Arctic, discovering people, places, and plants… all the
