The Glorious Adventure

With a new foreword by Tahir Shah, this book is one most captivating travel books of the 20th century.It was perhaps inevitable that Richard Halliburton, such a romantic, imaginative wanderer, wou ...

With a new foreword by Tahir Shah, this book is one most captivating travel books of the 20th century.It was perhaps inevitable that Richard Halliburton, such a romantic, imaginative wanderer, would follow in the footsteps of another legendary traveller - Odysseus. Halliburton''s second book, The Glorious Adventure, describes his journey through the Mediterranean in the shadow of his mythical hero.In Greece, Halliburton charged Mount Olympus ''in order to visit the gods that dwelled there''; he swam the Hellespont as Byron had before him and journeyed on to Troy, where Odysseus''s long adventu