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Operation Drake ships 200 explorers seek knowledge not plunder
British sponsors back Operation Drake to sail next October aboard the Eye of the Wind a 150 ton brigantine in a global science expedition. John Blashford Snell leads 41 year old Royal Engineers officer famed for major river and jungle explorations while 24 potential explorers per phase from several nations will join nine three month segments with safety English language requirement and subsidies. Americans aged 17 to 24 can contact Yakov Adam in New York for details.
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Sir Francis
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Blashford-Snell
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Blue Nile
Darien Gap
Colombia
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Cook
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Robin Hanbury Tenison
Borneo
Nigel Winsor
Tana
Kenya
Timothy Severin
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Acla
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