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A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston
1875–1930
An explorer-scientist with a restless streak, he traded a medical career for expeditions to Central Africa, New Guinea, and the Himalayas. His writing carries the curiosity of a naturalist and the nerve of someone who kept choosing the hardest road.
2 Audiobooks
Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea
by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston
Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921
by Charles Howard-Bury, George Mallory, A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston
About the author
Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston, often known as "Sandy" Wollaston, was an English doctor, ornithologist, botanist, climber, and explorer. He studied at Clifton College and King’s College, Cambridge, qualified as a surgeon in 1903, and then turned away from conventional medical practice to pursue exploration and natural history.
He took part in major expeditions in Uganda, the Congo, Dutch New Guinea, and the Himalayas, and he became especially well known for his work as a naturalist and for joining the 1921 British reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest. Along the way he wrote books drawn from his travels and earned recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Wollaston died in Cambridge in 1930. Today he is remembered as one of those early twentieth-century figures who seemed able to do several lives’ worth of work at once: physician, field scientist, collector, mountaineer, and travel writer.