Gandar Dower (1908–1944)
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- Juridisk navn
- Gandar-Dower, Kenneth Cecil
- Fødselsdato
- 1908-08-31
- Dødsdag
- 1944-02-12
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Regent's Park, London, UK
- Dødssted
- Addu Atoll, Maldives
- Uddannelse
- Harrow School
Cambridge University (Trinity College) - Erhverv
- sportsman
aviator
explorer
war correspondent
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Amateur Adventure af K C Gandar Dower
It would seem that in the earliest decades of the machine age the focus was very much on record-breaking: going the furthest or the fastest, or being the first. The question as to which record he was challenging greeted Kenneth Gandar Dower wherever he went. And so he begins the recollection of his adventure in an apologetic tone (although with an explicit statement that he refuses to apologise), because he and his flying companion Irwin did not conceive of this journey in those terms. Continued… (mere)
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- 37
- Popularitet
- #390,572
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- 4.0
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