Ben Carlin (1912–1981)
Autor de Half-Safe: Across the Atlantic by Jeep
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Ben Carlin
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Carlin, Frederick Benjamin
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1912-07-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1981-03-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Northam, Western Australia, Australia
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 30
- Popularidad
- #449,942
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 3
- Idiomas
- 1
Ben Carlin and his girl-friend, Elinore, were sure that a voyage around the world in this odd contraption would bring them riches and fame. It did nothing of the kind, but you have to admire Ben's single-minded compulsion despite numerous brushes with calamity he slogged on. Elinore finally gave up on the hardships (the cabin when traveling through the warmer countries would reach 170 degrees melting plastic items.) She abandoned Ben after several years of hardship and a marriage of constant bickering.
"Finally, on May 13, 1958—seven years and 10 months after he set out across the Atlantic—Ben drove west toward Montreal, where he and Elinore had stopped in 1948. He was older now, 45, gray in the beard, and heavier. Over the past decade, Ben had traveled 39,000 miles over land and 11,000 miles over water. He had crossed four oceans and five continents to become the only person in history to circumnavigate the globe by both land and sea in the same vehicle—a distinction he still holds"… (más)