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Adventure: Search for the Hobolos

on BBC Television

A weekly series of films taken by travellers and explorers on their expeditions throughout the world.

There are only about fifty 'hobolos' in the whole world. Before he found these strange vessels-half raft, half boat-on Lake Abaya in Ethiopia, Robert Dick Read had sampled raw hippo meat and joined in a crocodile hunt.
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Contributors

Narrator/filmed by:
Robert Dick Read
Filmed by:
Chris Konarski
Film editor:
Robert Walter
Presented by:
Brian Branston
Series edited by:
David Attenborough

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