Dickson Eva (w3438)
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- Description: Eva Dickson was a Swedish explorer, rally driver, aviator, war correspondent and travel writer. She financed her journeys by placing bets with wealthy society acquaintances. In 1932, together with her schoolfriend Littan Bennich, she drove from Nairobi to Stockholm - a journey of 27 driving days across Africa and through the Sahara - becoming the first woman to cross the Sahara Desert by car. The journey is recounted in her book En Eva i Sahara (Albert Bonniers, 1933). In 1934 she participated in scientific expeditions in the Congo and Uganda. In 1935 she travelled to Ethiopia with Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke - former husband of Karen Blixen - as war correspondent for the Swedish weekly Vecko-Journalen during the Abyssinian Crisis, returning to Kenya on mules over 2,000 km. On 3 June 1937 she departed Stockholm alone in an open-top Ford with the goal of becoming the first person to drive the Silk Road to Beijing. Her route covered Germany, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Afghanistan before illness forced a detour through India. On reaching Calcutta she ran out of funds and learned of the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, abandoning the Beijing plan. Despite her poor health she drove back toward Europe. In March 1938, after nine months on the road, she died in a car accident near Baghdad while returning to her hotel after dinner at friends' house. She was 33 years old
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Eva Lindström; Anton Johansson
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Sweden, Svezia, Suède
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1905-1938
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Silk Road, Via della Seta, Route de la Soie
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Dickson
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3815471
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Dickson, Eva. En Eva i Sahara. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1933.
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