Around The World On £5

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28104, 20 October 1956, Page 11

Around The World On £5

(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. October 19. Accepting a challenge to the youth oi Britain to go round the world on an initial outlay of £5 which the Duke of Edinburgh made in one of his speeches. Mr M. A. Boyd, aged 22. the son of a London vicar, has arrived in Bombay, having travelled over 35.000 miles and visited 17 counJ/Tes, says “The Times.” Mr Boyd, an Oxford graduate, still has £1 of his original £5 left, and intends to add another 5000 miles and a few more countries to the record before returning 1o England. He embarked on his round-the-world hitch-hike last November, to prove to th Duke that British youth still possessed the spirit of adventure. His working tour has taken Mr Boyd num England to Venezuela, Peru. California. British Columbia. Vladi vustok. Korea. Japan, Singapore. Siam. Rangoon, and thence to India. He is now making for Kenya, and hopes to go down the Congo and across the Sahara on his way back to London. He has worked on ships, as a university lecturer, on television, and as a journalist.