No, don\’t worry, I\’m not going to list boring numbers here like when someone was born or what year they discovered something. We\’re just going to look at names. No, I am not going to describe travelers that everyone knows about. Let\’s look at some lesser-known figures. For example, Eduardo Inglis made it into Peruvian textbooks, which is very interesting, but here he is almost forgotten. Not completely, but still. If the name means something to you and reminds you of the most famous hobo song, Teskně hučí Niagara, you\’re right. It\’s him. He was a composer. There are many others. He went to Argentina in \’47 and never came back because of the communists.

Later he traveled widely in South America and met many famous people. Among them were Thor Heyerdahl and Ernest Hemingway. After his death, his materials were donated to our country, and some of them are now preserved and digitized in the Southeast Moravian Museum here in Zlín. The second traveler was Miroslav Stingle, who spoke 17 languages. Perhaps the most beautiful pearl of his life was being elected sheikh. He traveled among the Maya, Australian Aborigines, Inuit, and Polynesia. One Indian tribe, named Okima, chose him as their chief.

In English, it translates as “he who leads.” And now came the biggest pearl of all. His appointment required the approval of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry. How he informed the tribe in question has not been investigated. It is impossible to list all the titles of his books. However, two at random. The first one is co-authored, Gri-gri, or the Confessed Glamour and Hidden Secrets of the Seychelles. The other book is “Angatal, a Friend from Greenland”. But the best-selling book is definitely “Sex in Five Parts of the World”. Check your home library to see if they might have it.