Crossing mountains, seas and the Causeway

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On Sept 1, 1955, two Land Rover Series I station wagons set off from Hyde Park in London.

In the cars were Cambridge University graduates Antony Barrington Brown, Adrian Cowell, Patrick Murphy, Henry Nott and Tim Slessor, as well as Oxford University undergraduate Nigel Newbery.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on November 24, 2018, with the headline Crossing mountains, seas and the Causeway. Subscribe