IN COOK'S TRACK
SAILING ROUND WORLD
ALAN VILLIERS'S PLANS
(Received July 24, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, .July: 23. Mr. Alan Villiers is planning .to circumnavigate :the globe, following the tracks_ of Captain Cook's first voyage. He sails from. Plymouth in October in the Joseph Conrad, and hopes to reach Australia by April. He said that he had been overwhelmed with applications to join, especially from girls. "It seems," he said, "that wolnen under twenty are more adventurous than boys. I have letters from women aged from 13 to 73." . • ..'
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 10
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88IN COOK'S TRACK Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 10
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