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

The Last Great Australian Adventurer : Ben Carlin's Epic Journey Around the World by Amphibious Jeep.
ISBN: 9781925324990
Publication Date: 31 July 2017

In 1948, Ben Carlin set out from New York City with an audacious, lunatic plan to circumnavigate the world in an army surplus amphibious jeep called Half-Safe.

Fuelled by cigarettes and adrenaline, the Australian army major pushed his fragile, claustrophobic vehicle through fierce Atlantic hurricanes, across uncharted North African desert, into dense South-East Asian jungle and over the icy dark swells of the North Pacific. It was a 50,000-mile roll of the dice that by all rights should have killed him.

When Ben finally pulled into Times Square a decade later, he found himself alone and forgotten, his legacy little more than a wake of women and empty whiskey bottles. And the worst was yet to come.

Was it all a fool's errand Or a pure manifestation of spirit Where does a dream end and an obsession begin What's an acceptable cost to pay, and to what lengths will a person go not to be left with the haunting question: what if The Last Great Australian Adventurer is the compelling account of Ben Carlin's attempt to make an enduring mark on the world at the twilight of the Golden Age of Adventure.

About the Author

Gordon Bass grew up in Texas but spent his childhood summers on excavations led by his father, George F. Bass, called the 'Indiana Jones of underwater archaeology' by TIME magazine. Living on remote parts of the Turkish Mediterranean coast sparked an early fascination with the intersection of adventure, history and technology. Gordon later discovered that his father's career had been influenced by meeting an extraordinary Australian adventurer named Ben Carlin when he was just 14 years old.

But who was Ben Carlin In his first book, Gordon sets out to ...