Royal Challenge Accepted: Around the World on Five Pounds [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Alastair Boyd

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ISBN 10: 095542450X ISBN 13: 9780955424502

Casa editrice: Ocean Media, 2006

Riassunto

In the mid-1950s, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ,threw out a challenge to University students and graduates " to work their way around the world on £5". So that is what Alistair Boyd did in 1956. He subsequently recorded his experience in a book entitled "Royal Challenge Accepted".

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En route, Alastair made his way to the lost city of the Incas, Machu Picchu - virtually unvisited at the time, met Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in Darjeeling, went to Hollywood to appear on America s biggest chat show and saw leather back turtles laying their eggs on a Malayan beach. His adventures are recounted in: Royal Challenge Accepted Around the world on five pounds --BBC RADIO4 Excess Baggage

Great Adventure... Recommended for all.... --Portsmouth Evening Press

L'autore

Alistair Boyd has had a succesfull career with the Commenwealth Development Corporation (CDC) and has played key roles in promoting economic development in South-East Asia, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. After retiring from the CDC, Aistair Boyd is currently the Chair of the Royal African Society, and the African Medical and Research Foundation.

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• Editore: Ocean Media
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 095542450X
• ISBN 13: 9780955424502
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240