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Author | : Richard Halliburton |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2018-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 178912705X |
Boys and girls all over the world know the name of Richard Halliburton. They have heard grown-ups talk about The Royal Road to Romance, The Glorious Adventure, New Worlds to Conquer, The Flying Carpet and Seven League Boots. These books have broken records in the field of travel and adventure. They are bestsellers year in and year out. Now Mr. Halliburton has written a book just for his younger friends (but just to try and keep father and mother or uncle and aunt away from it!) and in it he has kept a promise he made to himself when he studied geography in school. In those days his eager wish was to travel, to see the places he had read about. He swore that when he became a man he would see that his sons not only studied their geography but lived it too. Now he has been to the four corners of the world and beheld the wonders of nature and man. But he is a bachelor, and has no sons of his own. So he has adopted all boys and girls and here he takes them with him on a personally conducted tour to live geography with him—the most thrilled geography anyone could imagine. Following on from his Book of Marvels: The Occident, this present volume provides another exciting tour for school students—introducing the people, religions, architecture, customs, and scenery from Greece to Mt. Fuji in Japan, multi-cultural regions then called “The Orient,” complete with maps of his travel routes. No dramatic incident, no fascinating legend relating to his marvels has been omitted. Richard Halliburton has spared himself no trouble, no expense to make this book complete and beautiful. The illustrations are many and inspiring. Out of his first-hand knowledge of the notable scenes and works of our world, he has chosen those that have most appealed to his own imagination, and with his story-telling gift, simple, direct, enthusiastic, he makes them live to the imagination of all boys and girls. For he has the heart of a boy and he speaks to the heart of youth.
Author | : Richard Halliburton |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2019-01-13 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1789123801 |
By the early 1930s America had one literary treasure that risked his life to please its readers. Richard Halliburton had already become a best-selling travel author and could have retired comfortably on the immense wealth gained from the sale of his first two books. Yet some men are born to dare, and Halliburton was one these. NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER was Halliburton’s third book and contains a knapsack full of that adventurer’s gold—dreams brought to reality by the alchemy of his courage and daring. The book details how Halliburton set off for Latin America in search of adventure, and find it he did. He dived to the bottom of the Mayan Well of Death, from which hundreds of skeletons had been dredged, then swam fifty miles down the length of the Panama Canal. Not content, he climbed to the crest of Mexico’s lofty Mount Popocatepetl, twice, and roamed over the infamous Devil’s Island. Yet his most amazing adventure occurred when he had himself marooned on the same island which had once held Robinson Crusoe captive. “Somewhere a lizard stirred the leaves...Furtively I looked about me, realizing that in the darkness the boa-constrictors would be abroad creeping forth from the ancient tombs and slinking down the leafy avenues,” Halliburton wrote. This is Halliburton at is best—fatalistic about his own safety, poetic about his chances of survival, and determined to bring home a hair-raising tale of adventure from the Latin lands of legend.
Author | : Gerry Max |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2007-02-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786426713 |
Richard Halliburton was the quintessential world traveler of the early 20th century. In 1930, his celebrity equaled that of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. Halliburton called himself a "horizon chaser" and recommended that one should see the world before committing to a routine. Not only did he live up to his ideal, but he was eager to write about his adventures. A prolific partnership with gifted editor and ghost writer Paul Mooney produced excellent work, and theirs became a close personal relationship. Sadly, Halliburton and Mooney disappeared at sea on March 24, 1939, along with the entire crew of Halliburton's Chinese junk Sea Dragon, as they attempted to cross the Pacific from Hong Kong to the San Francisco World's Fair. This biography records the life and adventures of Halliburton and Mooney, focusing--as no other Halliburton biography has--on the productive literary collaboration between the two. Drawing on the recollections of people who knew them both, the work discusses their backgrounds, the early years of their acquaintance, and their possible romantic relationship. Finally, their fateful journey to Hong Kong and the ill-advised voyage of the Sea Dragon is described in detail. A good deal of first-hand evidence is provided by William Alexander, Paul Mooney's best friend and designer of Halliburton's Laguna Beach house. Appendices contain seven poems by Mooney and facsimile letters, including one of praise written by Richard Halliburton to William Alexander. Never-before-published photographs are also included.
Author | : Richard Halliburton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : |
When Richard Halliburton graduated from college, he chose adventure over a career, traveling the world with almost no money. The Royal Road to Romance chronicles what happened as a result, from a breakthrough Matterhorn ascent to being jailed for taking forbidden pictures on Gibraltar. Halliburton's literary career developed out of his meticulous logging of events that occurred on his own adventures. This book, his first, an account of his travels in 1921-23, was a best-seller for three years and was translated into 15 languages.
Author | : Richard HALLIBURTON |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tom L. Matthews |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780792259329 |
With photographs and quotes from Bell himself, this photobiography follows this well known inventor from his childhood in Scotland through his life-long efforts to come up with ideas that would improve people's lives. Foreword by Bell's great-grandson and current chairman of the National Geographic Society. 60 two-color illustrations.
Author | : Richard Halliburton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan Axelrod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : 9781558505063 |
From the Wright Brothers to the election of Nelson Mandela, this engaging, reader-friendly compendium--from the authors of the enormously successful What Every American Should Know about American History--provides capsule summaries of the 200 most important events in world history since 1900.
Author | : Noel C.L. Hackney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) |
ISBN | : 9780850590586 |
Author | : Ann McGovern |
Publisher | : If You. |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780590960014 |
Shows what it would have been like to live in New York City during the 1890's.