Not quite what you mean I suspect, but my parents put my wanderlust down to "Around the world with Ant and Bee"! That must have been embedded in my subconscious, but I was introduced to overlanding by a friend of my father who gave me his cherished "First Overland" by Tim Slessor when I was about 12. I subsequently spent 11 years driving overland trucks, eventually making the London - Singapore trip twice. He was very proud to have influenced me in this way, and my mother never forgave him!
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