Albert Podell
Auteur de Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
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Albert Podell is an American writer and adventurer. He has a B.A. in government from Cornell University, was a graduate fellow in international relations at the University of Chicago, and holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law. He has had successful careers as a magazine editor, director of afficher plus photography, creative director of an advertising agency and trial attorney. Podell has written 300 magazine articles and co-wrote the adventure classic, Who Needs a Road. He is the author of Around the World in 50 Years, which chronicles his travels to all 196 countries in the world. afficher moins
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Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every… par Albert Podell
some of the stories are interesting, but he's kind of a skeezy old man and sometimes it's gross to read about him trying to hit on young women in hostels to bang. Having been the young woman in a hostel in that situation before, not appreciated.
Story of Albert Podell, an American who sets a record for the longest car journey ever made around the world. After that he sets a record by going to every recognized country on earth.
It is an understatement to say he had a few adventures. !! He had a ton and the book is filled with scary, stressful, terrifying and hilarious recounts of countries. He encounters extremes of life. He is witness to way too much poverty in Africa (TIA:This is Africa). Way too much political uneasiness and religious persecusion in Middle East. He seems to spend a lot of the book talking about these places rather than the cafes in Paris. This bookl is a great learning experience.… (plus d'informations)
It is an understatement to say he had a few adventures. !! He had a ton and the book is filled with scary, stressful, terrifying and hilarious recounts of countries. He encounters extremes of life. He is witness to way too much poverty in Africa (TIA:This is Africa). Way too much political uneasiness and religious persecusion in Middle East. He seems to spend a lot of the book talking about these places rather than the cafes in Paris. This bookl is a great learning experience.… (plus d'informations)
This should have been a great book, but it wasn't. It really is a 2.5 star book. The first five chapters are from the 1960's and the rest are spread out since then. It is very sexist but not in a funny way almost in a parody of the guy writing it. He is clearly a product of the Playboy Magazine/ Mad Men/ hip and swinging 60's, but the stories are almost just fun facts and highlights of places he has been. The book closes with where things are around the world but by this point I didn't really care what his opinions were anymore.… (plus d'informations)
"this was interesting but not particularly evocative"
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 157
- Popularité
- #133,743
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 8