The Last Great Australian AdventurerThe extraordinary adventure story of Ben Carlin, who circled the world, over land and sea, in his rusting amphibious jeep. 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