JUNGLE - WAR GRAVES
Sandi Toksvig takes a trip through the Amazonian rain forest with Yossi Ghinsberg author of the 80鈥檚 US best seller Lost in the Jungle. She is also joined by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Director Outer Areas (East) Brad Hall and journalist and writer Nigel Jones author of The War Walk to discuss the work of the CWGC which operates in 150 countries around the world and the importance of maintaining and visiting war graves.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
Photo:听Bayeux war Cemetery (France) - photographer: Nick Crebbin
This week鈥檚 guests:听
is a writer and motivational speaker. He lives with his family in the heart of the Australian rainforest. Yossi鈥檚 book Lost in the Jungle has just been released in the UK. It charts his experiences of a backpacking trip to Bolivia which went terribly wrong and left him stranded for several weeks in the Amazonian jungle with no knife, map or training. Since surviving this ordeal, Yossi has done a lot of work in the Amazon, both conservation and developmental; finding practical ways to help indigenous people survive and evolve as their contact with the wider world community keeps increasing.
Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
ISBN-10: 1840246723
ISBN-13: 978-1840246728
Brad Hall is Canadian and Director Outer Areas East (East) for听 who maintains war graves in 150 countries around the world. The CWGC was founded by Major General Sir Fabian Ware; it was established by Royal Charter in 1917 and pays tribute to the Commonwealth forces men and women who died in the two world wars. Since its inception it has constructed and maintained 2,500 war cemeteries and plots, putting up headstones and where remains are missing inscribing names on memorials.听
Nigel Jones is a journalist and author of The War Walk in which he describes his pilgrimage to the Western Front battlefields following the old trench networks from the Belgian coast to the Swiss frontier. Nigel鈥檚 father served on Field Marshal Haig's staff and his uncle was killed in action near Ypres in 1915.
The War Walk: A Journey Along the Western Front
Publisher: Cassell Reference
ISBN-10: 0304366838
ISBN-13: 978-0304366835
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