The Resource The last great Australian adventurer, Gordon Bass
The last great Australian adventurer, Gordon Bass
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The item The last great Australian adventurer, Gordon Bass represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- In 1948, Ben Carlin set out from New York City with an audacious, lunatic plan to circumnavigate the world in an army surplus amphibious jeep called Half-Safe. Fuelled by cigarettes and adrenaline, the Australian army major pushed his fragile, claustrophobic vehicle through fierce Atlantic hurricanes, across uncharted North African desert, into dense South-East Asian jungle and over the icy dark swells of the North Pacific. It was a 50,000-mile roll of the dice that by all rights should have killed him. When Ben finally pulled into Times Square a decade later, he found himself alone and forgotten, his legacy little more than a wake of women and empty whiskey bottles. And the worst was yet to come. Was it all a fool's errand? Or a pure manifestation of spirit? Where does a dream end and an obsession begin? What's an acceptable cost to pay, and to what lengths will a person go not to be left with the haunting question - what if? The Last Great Australian Adventurer is the compelling account of Ben Carlin's attempt to make an enduring mark on the world at the twilight of the Golden Age of Adventure
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- "Ben Carlin's epic journey around the world by amphibious jeep"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9781925324990
- Label
- The last great Australian adventurer
- Title
- The last great Australian adventurer
- Statement of responsibility
- Gordon Bass
- Title variation
- Ben Carlin's epic journey around the world by amphibious jeep
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 1948, Ben Carlin set out from New York City with an audacious, lunatic plan to circumnavigate the world in an army surplus amphibious jeep called Half-Safe. Fuelled by cigarettes and adrenaline, the Australian army major pushed his fragile, claustrophobic vehicle through fierce Atlantic hurricanes, across uncharted North African desert, into dense South-East Asian jungle and over the icy dark swells of the North Pacific. It was a 50,000-mile roll of the dice that by all rights should have killed him. When Ben finally pulled into Times Square a decade later, he found himself alone and forgotten, his legacy little more than a wake of women and empty whiskey bottles. And the worst was yet to come. Was it all a fool's errand? Or a pure manifestation of spirit? Where does a dream end and an obsession begin? What's an acceptable cost to pay, and to what lengths will a person go not to be left with the haunting question - what if? The Last Great Australian Adventurer is the compelling account of Ben Carlin's attempt to make an enduring mark on the world at the twilight of the Golden Age of Adventure
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bass, Gordon
- Dewey number
- 910.41
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Carlin, Ben
- Half-Safe (Amphibious jeep)
- Adventure and adventurers
- Adventure and adventurers
- Automobile travel
- Ocean travel
- Seafaring life
- Voyages around the world
- Atlantic Ocean
- Label
- The last great Australian adventurer, Gordon Bass
- Note
- "Ben Carlin's epic journey around the world by amphibious jeep"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- cri
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059953357
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781925324990
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some colour)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987909846
- Label
- The last great Australian adventurer, Gordon Bass
- Note
- "Ben Carlin's epic journey around the world by amphibious jeep"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- cri
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059953357
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781925324990
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some colour)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987909846
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