Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America explained
The Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America took place in 1957-8, when teams from Oxford and Cambridge Universities drove overland across South America in three Land Rovers.[1]
The expedition was the third in a series of overland expeditions undertaken by a joint team from both universities. The first, in 1954, was the Oxford and Cambridge Trans-Africa Expedition, from London to Cape Town, and the second and most famous was the 1955-6 Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, from London to Singapore.
While on the expedition team member Adrian Cowell met the Villas-Bôas brothers and left the Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to join them on the Centro Geographico Expedition to find the geographical centre of Brazil.[2]
Ethnographic items collected were donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford by Peter Rivière on behalf of the expedition.[3]
Team members (partial list)
- Adrian Cowell (Cambridge) (previously a participant on the 1955-6 Singapore expedition)
- John Moore (Cameraman)[1]
- Nigel Newbery (Oxford) (previously a participant on the 1955-6 Singapore expedition)
- Peter Rivière[4]
External links
Notes and References
- News: Expeditions and Land Rover. Michael. Bishop. 22 September 2011. 21 January 2014. They Found Our Engineer. 3 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140203092921/http://theyfoundourengineer.authorsxpress.com/tag/landrover/page/2/. dead.
- News: Biography: John Adrian Cowell 1934 - 2011. 21 January 2014. Adrian Cowell Films. 10 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190510215514/http://www.adriancowellfilms.com/#/biography/4573826169. dead.
- News: South American Tropical Forest Material. 21 January 2014. Pitt Rivers Museum. 10 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141010001605/http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/South_America.html. dead.
- News: Professor Peter Rivière. 21 January 2014. Oxford University School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnology. https://web.archive.org/web/20170211101002/https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/about-us/affiliates-emeriti-research-fellows/prof-peter-riviere/. 11 February 2017. dead.