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50th Anniversary of the Oxford & Cambridge First Overland Expedition

Attention all aspiring adventurers!

Sunway University College cordially invites you to a special talk cum video presentation of the Oxford & Cambridge First Overland Expedition. The amazing expedition from England to Singapore was undertaken by six Oxbridge undergraduates in 1955, covering 16 countries including the deserts of Persia, the plains of India and the jungles of Burma, Thailand and Malaya, and took over 6 months to complete. The expedition has been described as an epic jungle journey with too many rivers and too few roads to travel!

Date: Friday 10 March, 2006
Time: 4.00-5.00pm
Venue: Auditorium 4 (Ground Floor), Sunway University College
Speaker: Tim Slessor

Tim Slessor, one of the team members of the expedition, is in Kuala Lumpur for the 50th anniversary of the Oxford & Cambridge First Overland Expedition, which was recently celebrated with a drive to re-enact the last leg of that extraordinary expedition, from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.

Tim Slessor has written the book, First Overland, which is today one of the best selling travel books which manages to deliver 'an optimistic sense of adventure'.

All are welcome. Admission is free.

For enquiries or to register your attendance, please call Jacqueline (extn 8141) or Marilyn (extn 8172), Public Relations Dept of SyUC.

(You can listen to Sir David Attenborough describe the tale of this unusual adventure in a narration of the forward of an audiobook version of the original book, First Overland, written by Expedition article writer Tim Slessor first released in 1957, to be released on June 1st 2006 at http://www.splicestudios.com/Audio/FirstOverland_Foreword_32.mp3)