Richard Halliburton (1) (1900–)
Autor de The Book of Marvels
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Obras de Richard Halliburton
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1900-01-09
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1939-03-24 (legal)
- Lugar de sepultura
- Lost at sea
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brownsville, Tennessee, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Pacific Ocean
- Lugares de residencia
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Laguna Beach, California, USA - Educación
- Memphis University School
Lawrenceville School
Princeton University - Ocupaciones
- travel writer
adventurer
journalist
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 13
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 2,320
- Popularidad
- #11,063
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 31
- ISBNs
- 46
- Idiomas
- 1
Halliburton was a reckless adventurer. He yielded to illegal temptations all the time. He told a stranger he was "in quest of the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow" (p 102). For some reason he and his roommate wanted to climb the Matterhorn so badly that they were willing to lie about their mountaineering experience and hide their lack of equipment. They traveled without an itinerary; going where the fancy took them. Halliburton made impetuous decisions - jumping off a train somewhere in Switzerland because he couldn't get a sense of the countryside by rail, breaking into the gardens of the Generalife by scaling a wall protected by thorny rose bushes, or using lies to get where he anywhere needed to go. He told one farmer he was a horse doctor so that he could acquire a donkey. After he was arrested he told a guard he was a train robber and bigamist and then stole a copy of the Short History of Gibraltar as a souvenir of his penal adventure.
Other adventures include climbing the pyramids at night, swimming naked in the Nile, trekking to the city of Ladakh where only twelve white visitors are allowed each year (because he wants to see a town that practices polyandry) and climbing Mount Fuji in the offseason, just to say he did.… (más)