Following Hugh Miller to Eigg

Ro Scott and Martin Goswick

Martin Gostwick enjoyed a career in journalism before becoming the National Trust for Scotland's manager of Hugh Miller Museum and Birthplace Cottage in 2000, succeeding his wife Freida who took early retirement due to ill health. In 2006 he founded the charity, The Friends of Hugh Miller, both to support the museum and generally promote Miller's memory and legacy to the wider world.

In 2014, The Friends of Hugh Miller accepted an invitation from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society to partner them in a venture of replicating Hugh Miller's epic voyage of 1844 in the Inner Hebrides, as described in his book The Cruise of the Betsey. The Friends sponsored a a berth for an earth sciences student, and Martin sailed with The Friends banner, for an "unmissable, life-changing experience".

Ro Scott is an ecologist by training and a naturalist by inclination and has worked for over 35 years in the nature conservation sector in the Highlands. After taking early retirement from SNH in 2008, Ro studied for a masters in Landscape, Environment and History. The combination of the west coast, sailing a historic vessel and the Hugh Miller connection made Ro's participation in this voyage "irresistible"!

Ro and Martin will take the audience on their voyage of adventure in the footsteps of Miller and share their combined wealth of knowledge of Highland landscape, inhabitants, wildlife and plants along the way.