TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE GREATEST ADVENTURERS OF ALL TIME by Anago Osho
If you
have passion for adventure, travel, diplomacy, activism or you are a student of
Anthropology, Ethnography, Geography, Archaeology, history and international
studies, Tourism Management or Tour Guiding, I implore you to read this article
and learn about the life and adventures of Don Fernando.
His life style may not
appeal to some religious beliefs but I know that everyone would learn from his
passion and work. He is my favorite Adventurer. He believed that ‘’There’s no resisting the wind of adventure’’.
The
jungle, the tropical forest, and the tributaries of the great river amazon,
became his real home. He traveled to all continents except Australasia. He was
in Cameroon, Gabon, Senegal, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Ecuador, Panama,
Galapagos, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Tierra Del Fuego-Argentina,
and Pakistan. He experienced fifty years of adventures across the world.
He was
born into a French family at
Saint-Maur-des-Fosses on 23 November 1901, and one day the family moved to Nantes France. Ethnography, anthropology
and geography were personified in
him. The world should revere him as one
of the greatest Adventurers of all time.
I wish he filmed his tours and
adventures. He had no staff, no private income, no fixed salary, and no showy
or elaborate equipment. He was a pioneer at his own risk and peril at a time
when technology was still developing.
He was a French who became a native American Indian ‘’ Spirit, soul
and body’’ on the amazon river of Brazil.
Don Fernando said ‘’It’s here that I belong’’. He left his
Country, home and inheritance to become a native Red Indian in the American
jungle. Tourism Adventure is an eye opener to the fulfillment of personal or
communal dreams.
Travel
and adventure made Don Fernando to see how helpless the native American Indians were and their struggle for survival. He
fell in love with the purity and the innocence of their Ancestors and he swore
to help them and others like them, to survive.
Quotations from, Don Fernando, Fernando Fournier
Aubry, 1973, pages 1, 7, 8, Talmy Franklin Ltd, London.
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