Chronology: Chronology: Date 1988-00-00-08

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1988 (In the year) 198-	The publication of La terre n'est qu'un seul pays! by Andre Brugiroux. Brugiroux, a French traveller, set out in 1955 at the age of 17 with 10 Francs in his pocket to fulfill his dream of travelling to every country in the world. He did so purely by hitchhiking and spent no more than a dollar a day on his journey. He travelled a total of 240,000 miles and ended his journey in South Sudan in 2011, having visited 251 countries and territories. He went on to write several books, this being the first. It was published in English as One People, One Planet: The Adventures of a World Citizen. [Wikipedia] For a short video of 83 year old Andre Brugiroux see a Tweet by Reuters. See an interview he did in 2001 in Sydney on the ABC with presenter Rachel Kohn on her program The Spirit of Things. Click on "show transcript". His website.	Andre Brugiroux