The Last Great Australian Adventurer: Ben Carlin's Epic Journey Around the World by Amphibious Jeep.

Gordon Bass

In 1948, the Australian Ben Carlin set out from New York City with an audacious, lunatic plan to circumnavigate the world by amphibious jeep. Fuelled by cigarettes and adrenaline, he forged eastwards through fierce Atlantic hurricanes; across scorching, uncharted North African desert; into dense South-E...