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Richard Halliburton

Born

in Brownsville, Tennessee, The United States

January 09, 1900

Died

March 24, 1939

Genre

Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Writer, Lecturer, and World Traveler, Richard Halliburton published numerous books during his short lifetime. During his world travels, he visited exotic locales such as the Taj Mahal in India, climbed the Matterhorn, flew across the Sahara desert in a bi-winged plane, and swam the entire length of the Panama Canal. He also roamed the Mediterranean Sea retracing the route followed by Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey and crossed the Swiss Alps on the back of an elephant in a recreation of Hannibal's expedition. Halliburton died (or, more accurately, disappeared) in March 1939 as he and his crew attempted to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, from Hong Kong to San Francisco as a publicity stunt. The vessel was unseaworthy and went down in a storm ...more

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Average rating: 4.36 · 1,772 ratings · 250 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Royal Road to Romance 4.29 avg rating — 608 ratings — published 1925 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richard Halliburton's Complete Book of Marvels 4.50 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 1937 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying Carpet 4.38 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1932 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels: the Occident 4.54 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1937 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glorious Adventure 4.22 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1927 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven League Boots 4.24 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1935 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richard Halliburton's Second Book of Marvels: The Orient 4.44 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1938 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Worlds to Conquer: America's Most Dashing 1920s Adventurer Explores South America 4.35 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1929 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tisíc a půl dobrodružství by Richard Halliburton, Jiří Pobera (Translator), Slávka Poberová (Translator) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1986	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richard Halliburton: His Story of His Life's Adventure 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1940 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.”
― Richard Halliburton

tags: adventure, beautiful, caprice, explore, freedom, indulgence, respectability, romantic, travel, travel-writing, travelling

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“Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”
― Richard Halliburton

tags: adrift, direction, education, graduation, guts, humor, inspiration, nerves, sailing, water

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“No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills — every emotion that any human ever had — and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.”
― Richard Halliburton

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