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Sebastian Snow
Sebastian Edward Farquharson Snow, (21 January 1929 – 20 April 2001), born in Midhurst, Sussex, was an eccentric English adventurer who became the first person to travel the length of the Amazon River. Travels Educated at Eton College, Eton, Snow was exempted from the National Service (United Kingdom), National Service on account of a sports injury and began his travels at age 22. This was in 1951, when Snow went on his first expedition to South America, after having answered an advertisement in ''The Times'' to join a hydrology, hydrological survey of the source-waters of the Amazon. With John Brown, he was eventually able to prove that the Ninococha ("Child Lake"), a glacier lake, flowed into the Marañón River, Marañón, the Amazon's most voluminous tributary. This was not ground-breaking news, however, since the Ninococha's status as the ultimate source of the Amazon River, Amazon was something previous French explorers to the region had posited on good evidence. Sno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midhurst
Midhurst () is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother inland from the English Channel, and north of the county town of Chichester. The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as ''Middeherst'', meaning "Middle wooded hill", or "(place) among the wooded hills". It derives from the Old English words ''midd'' (adjective) or ''mid'' (preposition), meaning "in the middle", plus ''hyrst'', "a wooded hill". The Norman St. Ann's Castle dates from about 1120, although the foundations are all that can now be seen. The castle, the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Denis, together with South Pond, the former fish-pond for the castle, are the only three structures left from this early period. The parish church is the oldest building in Midhurst. Just across the River Rother, in the parish of Easebourne, is the ruin of the Tudor Cowdray House. Governance National The former Parliamentary Constituency of Midhurst is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
