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Richard Halliburton

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born

January 09, 1900 in Brownsville, Tennessee, The United States

died

March 24, 1939

gender

male

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 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 around March 23-24, 1939. His body...more

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Books by Richard Halliburton

Average rating: 4.34 · 243 ratings · 47 reviews · 10 distinct works

	The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics 4.45 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1925 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Richard Halliburton's Complete Book Of Marvels 4.52 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1937 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Glorious Adventure 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1927 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Flying Carpet 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1932 — 4 editions	My rating:
	New Worlds To Conquer: America's Most Dashing 1920s Adventurer Explores South America 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1929	My rating:
	Seven League Boots 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1935 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Introduction to Population Genetics 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	India Speaks by Richard Halliburton, Walter Futter (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Het luisterrijk avontuur 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1928	My rating:
	In het spoor van Odysseus 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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Quotes by Richard Halliburton

“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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“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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“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