Real-life Indiana Jones passes away at 94
Schuyler Jones, a globe-trotting American anthropologist and adventurer whose exploits drew comparisons to iconic movie character Indiana Jones, has died. He was 94.
Jones' stepdaughter, Cassandra Da'Luz Vieira-Manion, posted on her Facebook page that Jones died on May 17. She said she had been taking care of him for the last six years and «truly thought he might live forever.»
«He was a fascinating man who lived a lot of life around the world,» she wrote.
Da'Luz Vieira-Manion didn't immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press on Saturday.
He wrote in an autobiography posted on Edinburgh University's website that he moved to Paris after World War II, where he worked as a photographer. He also spent four years in Africa as a freelance photographer. In his 1956 book «Under the African Sun,» he tells of surviving a helicopter crash in a marketplace in In Salah, Algeria, the Wichita Eagle reported. After the helicopter crashed he discovered he was on fire; gale-force winds had reignited the ashes in his pipe.
«Camels bawled and ran, scattering loads of firewood in all directions,» Jones wrote. «Children, Arabs and veiled women either fled or fell full length in the dust. Goats and donkeys went wild as the whirling, roaring monster landed in their mist… weak with relief, the pilot and I sat in the wreckage of In Salah's market place and roared with laughter.»
He later moved to Greece, where he supported himself by translating books from German and French to English. He decided to drive through India
