MAN WHO WENT FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK-BY LAND!
Famous Explorer Starts His Last Journey.
Mr Harry de Windt, the famous traveller and explorer, has died at a nursing home in Bournemouth, aged 77 years. He went to Bournemouth about nine weeks ago and entered the nursing home three weeks ago when was taken ill. For over 30 years he journeyed through Asia, Europe, North America, and North Africa. On one occasion he travelled from Paris to New York by land. Only five years previously— in 1896 —he had almost lost his life in the Behring Straits, which separate America from Asia, while he was attempting a similar journey in the opposite direction. On that occasion he was rescued by a whaler. He began his adventures in 1887 by travelling from Pekin to France by land and two years later rode from Russia to India way of Persia. The following year saw him inspecting the prisons of Western Siberia and in 1894 he made a tour of the mines and political prisons in Eastern Siberia.
Married Three Times.
The next year he went to Paris as the English delegate to the Penal Congress held there. In the next year, following his rescue in the Behring Straits he inspected the Klondike goldfields and also visited Russia. Windt succeeded in making the journey from Paris to New York in 1901-2, and he travelled extensively in the Balkans, the Sahara and Morocco. In the early days of the war he was a captain in the recruiting service, and was commandant of a prisoner-of-war camp from 1917—18. Born in Paris, in 1856, Mr de Windt was educated at Cambridge, and afterwards served as A.D.C. to his brother-in-law, Rajah Brooke of Sarawak. He married three times —the first in 1882 and the last six years ago. [Western Daily Press - Saturday 02 December 1933, p.12]
Famous Explorer Starts His Last Journey.
Mr Harry de Windt, the famous traveller and explorer, has died at a nursing home in Bournemouth, aged 77 years. He went to Bournemouth about nine weeks ago and entered the nursing home three weeks ago when was taken ill. For over 30 years he journeyed through Asia, Europe, North America, and North Africa. On one occasion he travelled from Paris to New York by land. Only five years previously— in 1896 —he had almost lost his life in the Behring Straits, which separate America from Asia, while he was attempting a similar journey in the opposite direction. On that occasion he was rescued by a whaler. He began his adventures in 1887 by travelling from Pekin to France by land and two years later rode from Russia to India way of Persia. The following year saw him inspecting the prisons of Western Siberia and in 1894 he made a tour of the mines and political prisons in Eastern Siberia.
Married Three Times.
The next year he went to Paris as the English delegate to the Penal Congress held there. In the next year, following his rescue in the Behring Straits he inspected the Klondike goldfields and also visited Russia. Windt succeeded in making the journey from Paris to New York in 1901-2, and he travelled extensively in the Balkans, the Sahara and Morocco. In the early days of the war he was a captain in the recruiting service, and was commandant of a prisoner-of-war camp from 1917—18. Born in Paris, in 1856, Mr de Windt was educated at Cambridge, and afterwards served as A.D.C. to his brother-in-law, Rajah Brooke of Sarawak. He married three times —the first in 1882 and the last six years ago. [Western Daily Press - Saturday 02 December 1933, p.12]
MAN WHO WENT FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK-BY LAND!
Famous Explorer Starts His Last Journey.
Mr Harry de Windt, the famous traveller and explorer, has died at a nursing home in Bournemouth, aged 77 years. He went to Bournemouth about nine weeks ago and entered the nursing home three weeks ago when was taken ill. For over 30 years he journeyed through Asia, Europe, North America, and North Africa. On one occasion he travelled from Paris to New York by land. Only five years previously— in 1896 —he had almost lost his life in the Behring Straits, which separate America from Asia, while he was attempting a similar journey in the opposite direction. On that occasion he was rescued by a whaler. He began his adventures in 1887 by travelling from Pekin to France by land and two years later rode from Russia to India way of Persia. The following year saw him inspecting the prisons of Western Siberia and in 1894 he made a tour of the mines and political prisons in Eastern Siberia.
Married Three Times.
The next year he went to Paris as the English delegate to the Penal Congress held there. In the next year, following his rescue in the Behring Straits he inspected the Klondike goldfields and also visited Russia. Windt succeeded in making the journey from Paris to New York in 1901-2, and he travelled extensively in the Balkans, the Sahara and Morocco. In the early days of the war he was a captain in the recruiting service, and was commandant of a prisoner-of-war camp from 1917—18. Born in Paris, in 1856, Mr de Windt was educated at Cambridge, and afterwards served as A.D.C. to his brother-in-law, Rajah Brooke of Sarawak. He married three times —the first in 1882 and the last six years ago. [Western Daily Press - Saturday 02 December 1933, p.12]
Famous Explorer Starts His Last Journey.
Mr Harry de Windt, the famous traveller and explorer, has died at a nursing home in Bournemouth, aged 77 years. He went to Bournemouth about nine weeks ago and entered the nursing home three weeks ago when was taken ill. For over 30 years he journeyed through Asia, Europe, North America, and North Africa. On one occasion he travelled from Paris to New York by land. Only five years previously— in 1896 —he had almost lost his life in the Behring Straits, which separate America from Asia, while he was attempting a similar journey in the opposite direction. On that occasion he was rescued by a whaler. He began his adventures in 1887 by travelling from Pekin to France by land and two years later rode from Russia to India way of Persia. The following year saw him inspecting the prisons of Western Siberia and in 1894 he made a tour of the mines and political prisons in Eastern Siberia.
Married Three Times.
The next year he went to Paris as the English delegate to the Penal Congress held there. In the next year, following his rescue in the Behring Straits he inspected the Klondike goldfields and also visited Russia. Windt succeeded in making the journey from Paris to New York in 1901-2, and he travelled extensively in the Balkans, the Sahara and Morocco. In the early days of the war he was a captain in the recruiting service, and was commandant of a prisoner-of-war camp from 1917—18. Born in Paris, in 1856, Mr de Windt was educated at Cambridge, and afterwards served as A.D.C. to his brother-in-law, Rajah Brooke of Sarawak. He married three times —the first in 1882 and the last six years ago. [Western Daily Press - Saturday 02 December 1933, p.12]
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