How One Man Realized His Dream of Visiting Every Country

Albert Podell, a former editor of Playboy magazine, did what all of us fantasize about but very few achieve: He traveled to all 196 countries on Earth. It took him 50 years. On the way he was chased by water buffalo, broke a few bones, ate weird foods, and was arrested, robbed, and almost lynched.
But he lived to tell the tale in a new book, Around the World in Fifty Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth.