![]() ![]() ![]() With an accommodation budget of around £7 (R125) a night, the writer has unrolled his sleeping bag “at border posts, roadsides, jungles, glaciers, airport floors, and in hostels, tents, trailers, trees, teepees, campers, cars, caravanseries, desert dugouts, and flea-bag motels dodging dengue- fever mosquitoes by day and malarial ones by night”. Albert Podell's Around the World in 50 Years is a remarkable and meaningful tale of quiet courage, dogged persistence, undying determination, and an uncanny ability to escape from one perilous situation after another-and return with some of the most memorable, frightening, and hilarious adventure stories you have ever read. He lists the most hair-raising moments as: being stranded on Kiribati, pickpocketed in Tunis and robbed of equipment in Algiers and the Khyber Pass, nearly lynched in East Pakistan, almost drowned in Costa Rica, detained by the police in Kinshasa and Hargeisa, jailed in Baghdad, breaking three ribs and ripping flesh and tearing rotator cuffs in many lands. He describes his encounters with voodoo rituals, fruit-bat pie, the Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon, Cuban counterintelligence agents, the New Guinea wigmen, camel. Podell’s adventures have seen him trapped by Cape buffalo and crocodiles in Botswana unable to furnish the required proof to the Egyptian police that he was not Jewish being unable to prove to the Cuban secret police that he was not CIA, and thrown in jail in Baghdad when a con artist pretended he had hit him with a land cruiser. In Around the World in 50 Years, Podell recounts the misunderstandings, detours, accidents, breakdowns, robberies, and even wars that he needed to overcome to visit every corner of Earth. ![]()
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