A story of visiting -- and surviving -- every nation on Earth: "Part travel adventure tale and part madcap farcical comedy... Hunter Thompson meets Anthony Bourdain." -- Chicago Tribune

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, revolutions, civil wars, trigger-happy child soldiers, voodoo priests, robbers, pickpockets, corrupt cops, and Cape buffalo. He went around, under, or through every kind of earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, snowstorm, and sandstorm that nature threw at him. He ate everything from old camel meat and rats to dung beetles and monkey's brain. 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.

Albert Podell's Around the World in 50 Years is a remarkable tale of quiet courage, dogged persistence, undying determination, and an uncanny ability to extricate himself from one perilous situation after another -- and return with some of the most memorable, frightening, and hilarious adventure stories you have ever read.

"Even if your desire for exotic travel never takes you out of your reading chair, you'll find Podell a fascinating companion." -- Bookpage

"Unquestionably entertaining... There is never a dull moment." -- Kirkus Reviews

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• Publication Date: March 24, 2015
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• Print Length: 367 Pages
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