Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America
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 perhaps 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 during the Expedition 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]
References
- ^ a b Bishop, Michael (22 September 2011). "Expeditions and Land Rover". They Found Our Engineer. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ "Biography: John Adrian Cowell 1934 - 2011". Adrian Cowell Films. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ "South American Tropical Forest Material". Pitt Rivers Museum. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ "Professor Peter Rivière". Oxford University School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnology. Retrieved 21 January 2014.