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The Glorious Adventure

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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.

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.

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.

I loved this book. It is like a friend from my youth.

Now I am going to give this to my children to read. This is good, fun adventure.

Well written like all of Richard Halliburton's books, but this is my favorite.