The young Geoffrey Kent could not be contained. At the age of 16, he set off from Nairobi on a motorcycle journey that took him 3,000 miles across Africa in six months. Quite the accomplishment for a kid. But, being a kid, he hadn’t exactly thought everything through. He had reached Cape Town — but he was out of cash. How was he to get home?
The clever, surprising answer to that question is found in “The Greatest Adventurer: From the Wilds of Africa to a Billion-Dollar Travel Empire,” co-written by Kent and Ben Mezrich, author of “The Accidental Billionaires.” Bandits, rebels, and dictators run amok in this tale of the swashbuckling…
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