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In 1957 Japan-based American journalist Boyé Lafayette De Mente joined Australian adventurer Ben Carlin on an amphibious jeep named "Half-Safe" on an ocean-crossing journey from Tokyo to Anchorage, Alaska that took precisely four months. One of the most publicized ocean-crossings in the 20th century -- via the North Pacific, the Bering Sea and Shelikof Strait -- their incredible experience is listed in the �'Guinness Book of World Records.�' During the voyage, the two encountered Russians, Japanese fish nets, a wall of water, the huge torpedo-shaped gas tank they pulled behind the jeep, sea lions, a field of kelp, water �'colder than ice,�' whales, each other�'and were lost for three weeks. The aftermath of the trip continued for some 40 years. This is De Mente's intimate account of the journey. (Carlin, as it turned out, proved to be a modern-day Captain Bligh - a situation that could have led to murder on the high seas!)

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Title of ebook: ONCE A FOOL--From Tokyo to Alaska by Amphibious Jeep
ISBN: 9780914778011
Publisher: Phoenix Books
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Released online for download: 04-25-2005
Author of eBook: De Mente, Boye, Lafayette

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"Once A Fool -- A Journey from Japan to Alaska by Amphibious Jeep" is one of the most gripping and out-of-the ordinary adventure tales I have ever read and, it's true! The "plot" is a classic pairing of protagonists: a young amateur seaman pitted against a grizzled, jaded and often cruel master of their destiny. It has all the elements for a screen adaption that would rank with the all-time great movie adventures. I can see Matt Damon as the young American, and the great English actor Anthony Hopkins as the Australian whose bits and bobs are definitely out of balance. This is a spell-binding read that I found impossible to put down.
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