Episode
No Such Thing As A Fourteen Humped Camel
Norman Lewis thinks that he was probably the third or fourth English person ever to go to North Yemen. Britain had a colonial territory called Aden, which was owned from 1839 until about 1960 something.
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In 1852, there was a show on in London called the Ascent of Mont Blanc by a guy called Albert Smith, which was just a guy who'd climbed up Mont Blanc. That was it, but the show ran for six years on Piccadilly.
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