Around the World in 50 Years, Albert Podell
Around the World in 50 Years, Albert Podell
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Around the World in 50 Years
My Adventure to Every Country on Earth

Author: Albert Podell

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 12 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/05/2015


Synopsis

This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him, two to disease, one to the Vietcong.

After that—although it took him forty-seven more years—Albert Podell set another record by going to every country on Earth. He achieved this by surviving riots, civil wars, trigger-happy child soldiers, voodoo priests, robbers, corrupt cops, and Cape buffalo. He went around, under, or through every kind of natural disaster. He ate everything from old camel meat and rats to dung beetles and the brain of a live monkey. And he overcame attacks by crocodiles, hippos, anacondas, giant leeches, flying crabs—and several beautiful girlfriends who insisted that he stop this nonsense and marry them.


Author Bio

Albert Podell is coauthor of Who Needs a Road?, an adventure classic still in print after nearly five decades. He has been an editor at Playboy and three national outdoor magazines and has written more than 250 freelance articles. Albert was coleader of the successful Trans World Record Expedition. He holds a BA in government from Cornell, was the graduate fellow of the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago, and received a law degree from New York University. He lives in New York and is an all-around outdoorsman-skier, boarder, mountaineer, climber, camper, hiker, biker, archer, angler, surfer, kayaker, scuba diver, windsurfer, long-distance swimmer, and vegetable gardener.

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