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Summary: Great book, incredible adventures, WOW!
Review: Al Podell and Harold Stephens recount their incredible adventures on their drive around the world with humor and intelligence. I couldn't put this book down - and my husband grabbed it every time I did. These guys did the ultimate 60's On the Road adventure, using ingenuity and wit to escape precarious situations, cross closing borders, interact with the locals in all kinds of ways...it's a miracle they and their car made it back to New York! I'd give it 6 stars!
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Summary: A great read. Get it now - you won't be disappointed!
Review: Anyone who has ever traveled anywhere by car (and who hasn't) will absolutely love the adventures and misadventures of Stephens, Podell and crew on this over-the-road around the world trip in a 60's era Toyota Land Cruiser. It's amazing they came back alive!Every bit as entertaining as the best of Cahill and Bryson but less long-winded, the adventure is related in a page-turning series of concisely written and entertaining passages that will have you howling with laughter and empathizing in pain. You will love this book!
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Summary: Who Needs a Road
Review: As both an adventure traveler and a vehicle enthusist this book was a relief to read. Mr. Stephens and Podell relate an experience that I would love to duplicate, an around the world adventure ripe with hi-jinx and romance. In a the current world of SUV commercials preaching get out and drive for fun, these guys show how much you can have without your heated seats and cell phone. I love the idea of packing all your junk in a rustic old truck and heading around the world. Of course it would be great to get all the sponsors that they had, but it would be a little bit harder to be as out of reach today especially if you had to report to the man. This book is fun and exciting and reason enough to quit you job, sell your $35,000 exploder, er Explorer, buy a real truck and use the left over money to start driving. Don't worry you'll figure out how to eat, get gas, get out of trouble and make it home. If you want to come home.
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Summary: Who Needs a Road
Review: As both an adventure traveler and a vehicle enthusist this book was a relief to read. Mr. Stephens and Podell relate an experience that I would love to duplicate, an around the world adventure ripe with hi-jinx and romance. In a the current world of SUV commercials preaching get out and drive for fun, these guys show how much you can have without your heated seats and cell phone. I love the idea of packing all your junk in a rustic old truck and heading around the world. Of course it would be great to get all the sponsors that they had, but it would be a little bit harder to be as out of reach today especially if you had to report to the man. This book is fun and exciting and reason enough to quit you job, sell your $35,000 exploder, er Explorer, buy a real truck and use the left over money to start driving. Don't worry you'll figure out how to eat, get gas, get out of trouble and make it home. If you want to come home.
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Summary: A favourite
Review: I loved this book, it's one of my absolute favourite travel books and I've recommended it to so many people. The writing is entertaining and keeps you hooked and the relationships between the participants makes for a great read.
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Summary: A favourite
Review: I loved this book, it's one of my absolute favourite travel books and I've recommended it to so many people. The writing is entertaining and keeps you hooked and the relationships between the participants makes for a great read.
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: I read "Who Needs A Road" just after I finished reading Stephen Ambrose's best-seller "Undaunted Courage," the story of Meriwether Lewis and the Lewis and Clark expedition. Both books nicely detail the adventures of these two groups of explorers. Although Stephens and Podell and their occasional entourage will not likely share the same place in history as Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery, their zany adventures will provide enjoyable reading.
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Summary: A 5-star adventure book
Review: I read this book when it first came out years ago and remembered it as one of the most interesting bookd I had read. So I decided to reread it again, and it's even more fascinating the second time through, especially since it now has well-researched updates to some of the events and countries the authors visited/encountered years ago. If you like honestly written stories that you can't put down, you've got to buy this one.
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Summary: One of my lifetime favorites
Review: I read who needs a road? several times back in Junior High School and never got tired of it. When I recently unearthed my old copy, I got back into the adventure right away. I am very glad this classic is back in print.
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Summary: Back Seat
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I bought the book because I'm interested in old FJ40's, but this book was a great adventure book - a tale that no words could possibly describe. However, it was a fun read, as you felt like you may have been in the backseat while the other drove you around the world.
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