New Worlds to Conquer: America's Most Dashing 1920s Adventurer Explores South America (Adventure Travel Classics) - Richard Halliburton - Bücher - The Long Riders' Guild Press - 9781590480830 - 1. Dezember 2001
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New Worlds to Conquer: America's Most Dashing 1920s Adventurer Explores South America (Adventure Travel Classics)

Richard Halliburton

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New Worlds to Conquer: America's Most Dashing 1920s Adventurer Explores South America (Adventure Travel Classics)

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.

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 1. Dezember 2001
ISBN13 9781590480830
Verlag The Long Riders' Guild Press
Seitenanzahl 400
Maße 151 × 25 × 219 mm   ·   512 g
Sprache Englisch  

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