Half-Safe: A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-World Adventure

In 1948, a young Australian mining engineer named Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in a single vehicle.

The vehicle in question was an amphibious jeep developed by the U.S.

Army, which Carlin christened Half-Safe, after a deodorant slogan.