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Eccentric Travellers

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by JOHN KEAY and JEAN-PIERRE DE ROHAN The fifth of seven programmes with Narrator john ROWE Charles Waterton achieved instant fame with the publication of his book Wanderings in South America in 1825. This indefatigable
Yorkshireman made three exciting explorations of the Jungles or South
America and his accounts of them won admiration from his reviewer for the , genuine zeal and Inexhaustible delight with which all the barbarous countries he visited arc described '. With MICHAEL DEACON
Producer ALAN BAYDOCK

Contributors

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

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