Eighty-Year-old Explorer
■ A Swedish country vicar, John En I audcr, over eighty years of age, has just completed a long search for rare plants in the wilds of Canada ami Jmerica, luring which he visited the most inaccessible parts of the Gasp? peninsula, in Quebec. The old clergyman is now going to Alaska, and then to the Behring Straits and Kamschatka. From there he will make his way southward along the Rocky Mountains to Los Angeles, . ard by ship to Japan and China, as | far as Peking i Mr Enandcr intends to go south to Calcutta, from there up Io Sikkim and into Tibet, and thence to the Persian Gulf, Bagdad and Jericho, after which h e proposes to celebrate Christ-
mas in Bethlehem. From there lie wi'l gc to Constantinople, and finally return to Sweden by aeroplane.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 296, 15 December 1928, Page 18 (Supplement)
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138Eighty-Year-old Explorer Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 296, 15 December 1928, Page 18 (Supplement)
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