Around the World in 50 Years (52 page)

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALBERT PODELL
has been an editor at
Playboy
and three national outdoor magazines and written more than 250 freelance articles. He was coleader of the Trans World Record Expedition and coauthor of
Who Needs a Road?,
an adventure classic still in print after nearly five decades. He holds a B.A. 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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ALSO BY
ALBERT PODELL

Who Needs a Road? The Story of the Longest and Last Motor Journey Around the World

 

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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraphs

Frontispiece

Photograph

Foreword
by Harold Stephens

ONE
    Between a Croc and a Hard Place

Photograph

TWO
    A Late Start

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THREE
    The Land of a Thousand Horrors

Photograph

FOUR
    Weighed Down in Egypt's Land

Photograph

FIVE
    Into the Teeth of the Tiger

Photograph

SIX
    Changing Goals

Photograph

SEVEN
    Making a Splash

Photograph

EIGHT
    “Just Call Me God”

Photograph

NINE
    So, When Is a Country Not a Country?

Photograph

TEN
    Doing God's Work

Photograph

ELEVEN
    Travels in SPAM Land

TWELVE
    Hanging Chad

Photograph

THIRTEEN
    “Do Not Kidnap Anyone Today!”

Photograph

FOURTEEN
    Your Man in Havana

Photograph

FIFTEEN
    You Are What You Eat

Photograph

SIXTEEN
    Snow Beneath the Southern Cross

Photograph

SEVENTEEN
    A Poke in a Pig

Photograph

EIGHTEEN
    No Countries for Old Men

Photograph

NINETEEN
    Into the Indian Ocean

Photograph

TWENTY
    On the Whims of the Dragoons

Photograph

TWENTY-ONE
    Murphy Moves to TomorrowLand

Photograph

Photograph

TWENTY-TWO
    To the Land of the Great Leader

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TWENTY-THREE
    In the Steppes of Genghis Khan

Photograph

TWENTY-FOUR
    On the Wings of the Dragon

Photograph

TWENTY-FIVE
    A Tropical Depression

Photograph

TWENTY-SIX
    Second Thoughts

Photograph

TWENTY-SEVEN
    My Meddle in the Muddle East

Photograph

TWENTY-EIGHT
    Guerrillas and Gorillas

Photograph

TWENTY-NINE
    Plan X and the Gray-Blue Eyes

Photograph

THIRTY
     … And One More for the Road

Photograph

Countries Visited: In Chronological Order

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Albert Podell

Copyright

 

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AROUND THE WORLD IN
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

 

Podell, Albert.

    Around the world in 50 years: my adventure to every country on earth / Albert Podell.—First edition.

        p. cm.

    ISBN 978-1-250-05198-1 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4668-5293-8 (e-book)

   1.  Podell, Albert—Travel.   2.  Voyages around the world.   I.  Title.

    G440.P73P64 2015

    910.4092—dc23

2014033858

 

e-ISBN 9781466852938

First Edition: March 2015