Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth
Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth by Dave Seminara
English | ISBN: 1642938580 | 256 pages | EPUB | June 1, 2021 | 4.30 Mb
English | ISBN: 1642938580 | 256 pages | EPUB | June 1, 2021 | 4.30 Mb
At twenty-three, William Simon Baekeland was well on his way to becoming the world’s best traveled person. The “billionaire” heir to a great plastics fortune had already visited 163 countries, but his real passion was finding ways to visit the world’s most challenging destinations—war torn cities, disputed territories, and remote or officially off-limits islands at the margins of the map. He earned rock-star status in the world of extreme travel by finding ingenious ways to bring the world’s most widely traveled people to difficult-to-reach and forbidden places. But when his story began to unravel, an eccentric group of hyper-well-traveled country collectors were left wondering how they had allowed their obsession to blind them to the warning signs that William Baekeland wasn’t who they thought he was.