1927. An amusing, consistently readable and original book of travel, The Glorious Adventure is properly named. Seldom does one find a book so young in spirit-young in the finest sense of the term. Mr. Halliburton bubbles over with the joy of life. His laughter and his high youthful seriousness, sanely mixed with banter, are infectious. Contents: The Glorious Adventure; Throne of God; Sylvania; We Charge Parnussus; Acropolitis; Marathon Madness; On the Trail of Ulysses; Some Corner of a Foreign Field; I Swim the Hellespont; The Windy Walls of Troy; Lotus Land; The Cyclops' Cave; Stromboli-the Island of Aeolus; Circe the Enchantress; To Hell with Ulysses; Siren Isles; Between Scylla and Charybdis; City of the Sun God; Fifi Plays Calypso; The Princess; and Ulysses Returns.
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Halliburton was the most dashing and handsome adventure traveler America ever had. Before the advent of television, before the destruction of the Second World War, every American sat glued to the radio, eagerly listening for news of what crazy young Dick Halliburton had done next.
During the roaring 1920s and 1930s he traveled the world like a whirlwind.
Halliburton disappeared in 1939 while trying to sail a Chinese junk from China to San Francisco, the victim of a legendary typhoon. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The original Indiana Jones,
This review is from: The Glorious Adventure (Paperback)
Richard Halliburton seems to have been a proto-Indiana Jones. He road an elephant over the alps, he swam the Panama Canal. In this one section of his 5 or 6 adventure publications, he brings you along with him with wonderful descriptions and much imagination. However, if you are sensitive about racial profiling or racism, bear in mind he was a product of his times (1930's) and seems to think himself clever for cheating or mistreating the "native" peoples he ran across. If this attitude bothers you, his books are probably going to annoy you a little.
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My favorite of all Halliburton's life changing books.,
By Ben Bridgers (ben@dnet.net) N.C., U.S.A. (North Carolina, USAB) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Glorious Adventure (Textbook Binding)
My favorite of all Halliburton's life changing adventure books. Rereading him again after 30 years I have begun planning my own trip to swim the Hellespont. Who knows what other Halliburton site I will visit after that. An inspiration to adventurers young and old.
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A classic travel adventure by one of the best,
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Read this as a teenager and it set me up for traveling the rest of my life. Not just a traveler but an adventurer with a creative slant--this was only one of the first of his glorious adventures. I just bought this to stimulate my grand kid's love of adventure.
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