Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth, by Albert Podell
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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.
Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth, by Albert Podell- Amazon Sales Rank: #1923372 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.40" h x .60" w x 5.30" l,
- Running time: 12 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
Review "[T]here is never a dull moment." ---Kirkus
About the Author 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 lives in New York.An award-winning audio engineer for over forty years, Tom Perkins has expanded his skills to narrating and has more than sixty titles to his credit. He learned by working with the world's best voice talent during his career, and he continues to engineer a variety of projects.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful. Exhausting, exhaustive, exhilarating By David Wineberg Albert Podell must have a rectal horseshoe. He blithely and blindly goes where he knows he cannot and certainly should not. He takes countless risks that routinely land people in horrific jails. And still he manages to come back to tell the story. All his life he has had one small passion – to visit and understand every country in the world. It took him 50 years, and toward the end, his age pointed itself out to him. But he did it, and he tells an enthralling story. He is humorous, self-aware enough to be self deprecating, and reflective. He took the low road, sleeping in tents and hostels, making contacts with the locals in every nation. He learned their ways, earned their co-operation and often their respect, and could evaluate them and their context.All the countries of the world is an absurd, constantly changing, arbitrary number. Even as he checked them off, he had to go back and visit again when they changed. For instance, Czechoslovakia split into two countries, Yugoslavia into a battalion. The inequality is also absurd. Canada, the second largest country on earth, counts as one, just like Monaco, which he walked across. Still, it makes for a very eventful, rewarding and fulfilling life.This was no cakewalk. Podell got into trouble with authorities, airlines, police, animals, rivers and natives wherever he ventured. Quickwitted, he persevered and innovated, and made it back every time. The last time, he even proposed at the airport, and after a lifetime of girlfriends who never seemed to last more than one trip, he married and presumably settled down (somewhat).His observations are clear, balanced and fair. Unintentionally, he has pointed out the absurdity of the visa system, where some are permitted to enter or leave, and some not. Sometimes for multiple entry and sometimes for limited days. And depending on what country you’re arriving from, you may or may not enter. Or even be allowed to change planes. And all to no purpose. None.It’s a romp and an education, and has changed my own bucket list.We couldn’t do it, but I’m glad he did.David Wineberg
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Too Much of Nothing By Erik_In_Vegas This book started out pretty good & is well written, by a former adventure magazine editor & writer.It soon became an un-enjoyable chore to read, because it leads nowhere except to the fact that he visits all the separate countries of the world.There's no human growth or development. No grand conclusion or learned philosophy.Basically, all he seems to learn is that he's become too old to pick-up or flirt with young girls at the Youth Hostels. A fact he rectifies, at the end of the book, by marrying a Russian woman 49 years younger than him. (photo provided, of course).It's just the story of a guy, with money to spend, going to a bunch of lousy places to try getting bragging rights as 'The World's Most Interesting Man'.I didn't learn much from his adventures, nor enjoy his non-evolution. It's basically 50 years of self-centered travel & mishaps, with no underlying story.I seriously learned more & got more 'travel enjoyment' reading the ('Dog Days') book about the guy who drove the Weiner Mobile. No lie or exaggeration.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Around the world in 50 years By Clare O'Beara Editing travel magazine Argosy, the author teamed up with a reporter and photographer and decided to take the longest land journey that could be managed around the world, in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. This was in 1964 and all kinds of troubles and wars were under way; one photographer was killed by the Viet Cong in Cambodia. Pakistan declared war while the team travelled through the country and all foreign journalists became suspect as possible spies, so that the author was almost lynched.The bugs, leeches and minefields posed their own problems, reminding me of Len Beadell's books about carving Australia's great long roads out of the outback. The people were by turns devious, thieving, hardworking and keen to buy women travelling with the team.This book details only the more remote and hard to enter countries that the author has visited during his life, scattered over many years, as he claims to have visited every country in the world, seven of which no longer exist. The stories come so thick and fast that it is hard to take them all in at one sitting, so I recommend reading the book over a few stages in order to appreciate not only each journey, but the kind of life that would result from this constant travelling. I recommend this read to any armchair traveller or anyone with a thirst for adventure.
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