AN EIGHT-YEAR TOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 12

AN EIGHT-YEAR TOUR.

(THE WORLD AT FIRST HAND. : ! YOUNG GERMAN WITH DIARIES. [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 12. Desirous of becoming a professor of ! geography Werner Hossbach, a young German, is studying the subject at first hand by travelling round the world. lie left Germany in June this year, and he expects to return home again in 1936 laden with diaries and with a mind stored with a great deal of knowledge of men | and things obtained at first hand. South ! Africa was the first overseas country that he visited, and from here be is going to Madagascar and Mauritius, to which place he hopes to work—indeed, must work—his passage if he is to get there, lie will subsequently go to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and will reach home by way of south-western Europe. Mr. Hossbach, who is 23, has an engaging smile and talks very modestly of hardships overcome and feats of endurance undertaken that few people would care to undergo, lie has walked, motored, travelled by train and boat through 1 Europe, and bv the same means reached Johannesburg from Capetown. At the end of each day Mr. Hossbach sits down to his diary, in which he makes voluminous entries which are to supply the material for a book to bo published when he returns to Germany. To earn a living on his travels he takes and sells photographs of places and persons of interest, corresponds with certain German newspapers, lends a hand to farmers, and, in short, does any honest work that comes his way. He also undertakes to carry messages from people in one country to their friends in another.