Editing Roald Dahl (section)

=== After school ===
After finishing his schooling, in August 1934 Dahl crossed the Atlantic on the {{RMS|Nova Scotia|1926|6}} and hiked through [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] with the British [[British Exploring Society|Public Schools Exploring Society]].{{sfn|Sturrock|2010|pp=93–94|ref=none}}<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/149746/Roald-Dahl|title=Roald Dahl (British author)|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=16 September 2014|archive-date=10 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510071402/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/149746/Roald-Dahl|url-status=live}}</ref>

In July 1934, Dahl joined the [[Shell plc|Shell Petroleum]] Company. Following four years of training in the United Kingdom, he was assigned first to [[Mombasa]], Kenya, then to [[Dar es Salaam]] in the British colony of [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika]] (now part of Tanzania).{{sfn|Dahl|2013a|p=217}} Dahl explains in his autobiography ''Going Solo'' that only three young Englishmen ran the Shell company in the territory, of which he was the youngest and junior.{{sfn|Dahl|2013b|p=23}} Along with the only two other Shell employees in the entire territory, he lived in luxury in the Shell House outside Dar es Salaam, with a cook and personal servants. While out on assignments supplying oil to customers across Tanganyika, he encountered [[black mamba]] snakes and lions, among other wildlife.{{sfn|Dahl|2013a|p=217}}