Seven League Boots
Tauris Parke (Verlag)
978-0-7556-1757-9 (ISBN)
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Richard Halliburton's fifth and last book, Seven League Boots, illustrates how he followed these orders with passion and abandon. America's favourite adventurer dined with Haile Selassie and rode the Rhinoceros Express in Ethiopia; he had an audience with King Ibn Saud outside the gates of Mecca (which he had tried to sneak into) and finally rode an elephant over the Alps in the tracks of another great adventurer, Hannibal.
This is Halliburton at his best: reckless and romantic. It is also the last chapter of a life that had, at its end, grown tragic. Nearing forty, physically exhausted, and in financial trouble, Halliburton thought to roll the dice once again, hoping that the charm which had always saved him in the past would materialise one more time.
But it was not to be. His last journey was fatal. Soon after finishing this book, he attempted to sail a junk across the Pacific, but never returned.
Richard Halliburton (1900-39) was America's great adventurer and one of the most successful adventure travel writers of the 20th century. His final adventure, sailing a junk across the Pacific, was also his last. Halliburton disappeared in March 1939 and was never seen again. His wild adventures live on in the books that have captivated millions of readers and inspired generations of writers.
New Foreword by Tahir Shah
Introduction: Seven League Boots
I. Devil's Island in America
II. Eight Volunteers for Death
III. A Battle and a Cat
IV. His Majesty the Dishwasher
V. The Black King's Castle
VI. The Bones of Columbus
VII. How to Buy an Elephant
VIII-XII. The Massacre of the Romanoffs
1. The Assassin
2. The Victims
3. The Death House
4. Slaughter
5. Postscript
XIII. The Wheat and the Emeralds
XIV. Mrs. Lenin
XV. The Hundred Happiest Children in the World
XVI. Straight Talk from Russia
XVII. The Oldest Man in the World
XVIII. The Last of the Crusaders
XIX. Out of Russia
XX. The Sultana of Turkey - from Martinique
XXI. No Woman's Land
XXII. The Involuntary Monk
XXIII. The City of the Minotaur
XXIV. The Deadliest Sport in History
XXV. Horror Island
XXVI. Scarlet Sister Salome
XXVII. Hadji Halliburton
XXVIII. The Giant
XXIX. The Rhinoceros Express
XXX. The King of Kings
XXXI. In the Tracks of Hannibal
XXXII. Uphill
XXXIII. Half-way to Heaven
XXXIV. The Elefantessa
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.10.2019 |
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| Vorwort | Tahir Shah |
| Zusatzinfo | 16pp bw plates |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 282 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7556-1757-6 / 0755617576 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7556-1757-9 / 9780755617579 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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