Who Needs a Road?
“The story of the longest and last motor journey around the world”
by: Harold Stephens & Albert Podell
This is truly an amazing read and should have something for everyone. It is easy to digest, told in a quality storyteller fashion, and conveys all the extremes of emotion that you’d expect to encounter on such a challenging journey. I don’t want to give too much away, but you can’t go wrong when you have a book filled with: world records, world travelers, bribes, smugglers, thieves, exotic animals, off road driving, war zones, and more bumps in the road than you can count. READ this book!
The book helped to solidify my interest in an around the world driving experience, although I hope to avoid some of the conflicts encountered in this journey. I’m sure I’ll run into plenty of issues and conflicts of my own, I’m just going to try to avoid the worst war zones along the way. This will for sure take me on a MUCH different route than followed on the Trans World Record Expedition, but I look forward to finding MY way.
Originally published in 1968, and I read the 5th edition published in 2004. The book seems to have become a bit of a collectors item and is selling for well over 2 times its publish price of $14.95 (Amazon Link). Well worth the read, even at that price:) Electronic versions are cheaper.
-Huge thanks goes out to my friend Cory Herbert who passed along this book to me.-
