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In 1948, a young Australian mining engineer called Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in one vehicle. The vehicle involved was an amphibious jeep developed by the U.S. Military, which Carlin christened Half-Safe, following a deodorant slogan. It had been a mechanical mongrel that was supposed to move with equivalent efficiency across land and normal water but in practice wasn't much best for each one. Undaunted, Carlin and his partner Elinore set off across the Atlantic Ocean with dreams of popularity and bundle of money, and of carving a tiny notch in history. What happened next is one of the very most bizarre, exceptional, and forgotten trip tales of the 20th century. In Half-Safe, creator James Nestor endeavors to uncover Ben Carlin's destiny and confirms a gripping storyline of love, risk, and extraordinary perseverance that spans three oceans and five continents. Half-Safe takes us from the attention of any Atlantic Ocean hurricane to the sweltering Sahara to the impenetrable jungles of Southeast Asia - and into the mind of a guy who could get over everything but his own demons.
