World Safari

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World Safari is a documentary film released in 1977 made from footage of Alby Mangels and John Field's six-year journey around 56 countries and four continents in the 1970s. Includes a motorcycle trip across Australia, living with Buddhist monks, selling life insurance on the side of the road, and getting lost in a two-cylinder DAF van while crossing the Sahara desert.

Originally titled Happy Go Lucky Highway,{{cite news| last=Smith| first=Margaret| title='Divine Discontent' led to Adventure| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gP5jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=974,3528000&dq=alby+mangels&hl=en| accessdate=30 July 2013| newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald| date=10 July 1977|page=69}} World Safari has two sequels, World Safari II: The Final Adventure, released 20 December 1984 (Best Family Film of the Year, 1986 Los Angeles Film Festival{{cite web | url=http://www.jojopublishing.com/html/s02_article/article_view.asp?art_id=239&nav_cat_id=141&nav_top_id=69 | title=Alby Mangels ~ Beyond World Safari | publisher=Jo Jo Publishing}}) and Escape: World Safari III released 26 December 1988.