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Mad Travelers - A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth (Paperback)
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Mad Travelers - A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth (Paperback)
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Loot Price R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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A brilliant, young con artist offered to help the world's most
traveled people reach the planet's last untouched frontiers;
instead, they were taken for a wild ride that turned into a costly
lesson on the perils of wanderlust. At twenty-three, William Simon
Baekeland was well on his way to becoming the world's best traveled
person. The "billionaire" heir to a great plastics fortune had
already visited 163 countries, but his real passion was finding
ways to visit the world's most challenging destinations-war torn
cities, disputed territories, and remote or officially off-limits
islands at the margins of the map. He earned rock-star status in
the world of extreme travel by finding ingenious ways to bring the
world's most widely traveled people to difficult-to-reach and
forbidden places. But when his story began to unravel, an eccentric
group of hyper-well-traveled country collectors were left wondering
how they had allowed their obsession to blind them to the warning
signs that William Baekeland wasn't who they thought he was. Mad
Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the
Ends of the Earth delves deep inside the subculture of country
collecting, taking readers to danger zones like Mogadishu and
geographical oddities like Norway's nearly impossible-to-reach
Bouvet Island. Along the way, this raucous tale of adventure and
international intrigue illuminates the perils and pleasures of
wanderlust while examining a fundamental question: why are some
people compelled to travel, while others are content to stay home?
Mad Travelers is a perceptive and at times hilarious account of how
the pursuit of everywhere put the world's greatest travelers at the
mercy of a brilliant young con man. Featured in an HBO docuseries.
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