A WORLD EDUCATION
English Schoolboy’s Experience
Into the last eight months Nigel Bicknell, a 19-year-old Oundle schoolboy, has packed more adventure than many see in a lifetime. He thought academic education was not enough, so he asked his father, a Newcastle-on-Tyne business man, for the money that would ordinarily have gone on more school fees. Father agreed, and with £lOO a camera, a typewriter and a gun he jet off on a world tour. In San Francisco he bought a motor-cycle for £lO, rode 3000 miles on it across to Tennessee, and sold it at a high enough profit to book a passage home in the Queen Mary. Highspots of the tour: Three-day ultimatum to leave Manchuria for taking n photograph of a bridge guarded by Japanese soldiers; climbing Fujiyama ; detention under suspicion as a spy in Siberia; chasing in an old Lithuanian taxi-cab for 40 miles over snow-covered roads a train lie had missed by an hour.
“It taught me more than books could ever do,” Bicknell told a “Sunday Express” representative.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 60, 4 December 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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173A WORLD EDUCATION Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 60, 4 December 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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