| 2011/12 Programme |
1) In the Footsteps of Colonel Fawcett and 4 October 2011
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The explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Brazilian jungle in 1925, travelled extensively in Bolivia between 1906 and 1913. Inspired by local legends of floods he searched for the lost land of Atlantis……………. A hundred years later in 2009 Colonel John Blashford Snell led another expedition……… |
The Transport
The Wildlife
The Archaeology |
An Ancient Waterway Between the Pacific & the Atlantic
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Historical evidence from the Sixteenth Century onwards showed that a Pre Panama canal across Nicaragua may have existed joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. John and his team were asked to seek evidence of this waterway………. |
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| Pictures © John Blashford-Snell |
| Guildford Travel Club meets at the Onslow Village Hall, at the junction of Wilderness Road and Orchard Road on alternate Tuesdays from October to April at 8.00pm (doors open at 7.30pm). Visitors are welcome - £5 per meeting (Student Card Holders - £2.50). For more information or to join: | |
| telephone: 01483-831430 | e-mail: robert.macandrew@ntlworld.com
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