ABEL ARMAND

In 1958, three Belgium counts accepted the challenge to circle the globe in thirty days while participating in a 33 item scavenger hunt. At every city they had to stop, they had to collect items that included a Tehran phone directory when one hadn't been published in ten years, a photo of them on a camel when there were no camels in Tehran, a New Delhi policeman's turban, a photo of them in a Royal Canadian Policeman's uniform on a police horse, a street sign from Montreal, and while in New York, a photo of them in boxing costume boxing Sugar Ray Robinson. The strait jacket from a Hong Kong insane asylum proved very difficult to find while the snake charmer's snake wrapped around their necks in New Delhi was decidedly dangerous.

An interesting travelogue that gives a picture of travel in various countries in 1958. Airlines and aircraft of the period are also described.… (más)