Lady Carnarvon's Official Podcast
Jun 30, 2026 · 29 min · 13 segments
I’m delighted to welcome author and explorer Levison Wood to Highclere, where we talk about my great love; trees and his book, The Great Tree Story: how forests have shaped our world. Levison shares…
Levison WoodGuest
Fiona CarnarvonHost
And funnily enough, it was not always particularly safe to travel in those days, as it probably isn't safe to travel to many parts of the world today.
The second Earl of Carnarvon, Geordie's however many grandfathers, was imprisoned in Spain or Portugal or both.
The second Earl was also in Warsaw during the First Republic of Poland, which was in 1791, making accounts of it.
So they were extraordinary people because it wasn't particularly comfortable travelling in those days.
And that took me nine months, which was a sort of a bit of a flavour into how things used to be done.
But I take my hat off to all of those, particularly the sort of the greats of the age of exploration who would go off for two, three, four years at a time.
With no real, I mean, people would write letters, but it was hit and miss whether they actually got to where they were supposed to be.
And funnily enough, it was not always particularly safe to travel in those days, as it probably isn't safe to travel to many parts of the world today.
The second Earl of Carnarvon, Geordie's however many grandfathers, was imprisoned in Spain or Portugal or both.
The second Earl was also in Warsaw during the First Republic of Poland, which was in 1791, making accounts of it.
So they were extraordinary people because it wasn't particularly comfortable travelling in those days.
And that took me nine months, which was a sort of a bit of a flavour into how things used to be done.
But I take my hat off to all of those, particularly the sort of the greats of the age of exploration who would go off for two, three, four years at a time.
With no real, I mean, people would write letters, but it was hit and miss whether they actually got to where they were supposed to be.
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