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Eccentric Travellers

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by JOHN KEAY and JEAN-PIERRE DE ROHAN The fifth of seven programmes with Leslie Sands as Charles Waterton Narrator JOHN ROWE With MICHAEL DEACON Charles Waterton achieved instant fame with the publication in 1825 of his book
Wandertnos in South America.
This indefatigable
Yorkshireman made three exciting explorations of the jungles of South America and his accounts of them won admiration from his reviewer for the * genuine seal and inexhaustible delight with which all the barbarous countries he visited are described.' Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keay
Unknown:
Jean-Pierre de Rohan
Unknown:
Leslie Sands
Narrator:
Charles Waterton
Unknown:
Michael Deacon
Unknown:
Charles Waterton
Producer:
Alan Haydock
Source: Radio Times

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