Before the advent of television, before the global destruction of the Second World War, every American sat glued to the radio, eagerly listening for news of what crazy young Dick Halliburton had done next. They didn't have long to wait! Halliburton started entertaining the world in the early 1920s. The Glorious Adventure was his second book and details how he set out to follow in the path of Ulysses, that royal vagabond who mirrored Dick's own restlessness. The resultant book doesn’t lack for excitement. It details how Halliburton roamed the Mediterranean Sea searching for adventure and romance, both of which he was happy to report were still in abundant supply.
"I thought of Ulysses and his stirring drama, and then looked at my own life, imprisoned by apartment walls, surrounded by self-satisfied people who were caught in the ruts of convention and responsibility. All that seemed drab. I had tasted the drug of romantic travel, and I could not rest from it"
Halliburton wrote before setting off for the blue Mediterranean. The Glorious Adventure is properly named, for seldom does one find a book so young in spirit and bubbling over with the joy of life.
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Certainly the most amusing, consistently readable and original book of travel which has been published since The Royal Road to Romance. —Edward Donahoe in N. Y. Herald Tribune
The new book by enthusiastic, sparkling, bubbling, impetuous Richard Halliburton begins with a Crash! The result is the biggest kind of super-romantic money's worth that "self-satisfied people caught in the ruts of convention and responsibility" can buy anywhere. —Time
What gives it charm is its lusty exuberance, its deep, rich relish of experience, its unflagging zest for seeing, hearing and doing. It is just the utter youthfulness of the book which makes it readable from beginning to end. —St. Paul Dispatch
The Glorious Adventure is properly named. Seldom does one find a book so young in spirit—young in the finest sense of the term. Mr. Halliburton bubbles over with the joy of life. His laughter and his high youthful seriousness, sanely mixed with banter, are infectious. —John G. Neihardt in St. Louis Post Dispatch
—from the dust jacket
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