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Mad Travellers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth

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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 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.

Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth delves deep inside the subculture of country collecting, taking readers to danger zones like Mogadishu and geographical oddities like Norway's nearly impossible-to-reach Bouvet Island.  It's a perceptive and at times hilarious account of how the pursuit of everywhere put the world's greatest travellers at the mercy of a brilliant young con man. Featured in an HBO documentary.

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