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With a new foreword by Tahir Shah, this book is as epic and eventful as The Odyssey and one of the most captivating travel books of the 20th century.

Table of Contents

New foreword by Tahir Shah

1. The Glorious Adventure
2. Throne of God
3. Sylvania
4. We Charge Parnassus
5. Acropolitis
6. Marathon Madness
7. On the Trail of Ulysses
8. “Some Corner of a Foreign Field”
9. I Swim the Hellespont
10. The Windy Walls of Troy
11. Lotus Land
12. The Cyclops’ Cave
13. Stromboli—The Island of Æolus
14. Circe the Enchantress
15. To Hell with Ulysses
16. Siren Isles
17. Between Scylla and Charybdis
18. City of the Sun God
19. Fifi Plays Calypso
20. The Princess
21. Ulysses Returns

About the Author

Richard Halliburton (1900-39) was America's greatest adventurer and one of the most successful adventure travel writers of the twentieth century. Through a life spent chasing horizons and concocting ever more daring schemes - from swimming the length of the Panama Canal to flying around the world in an open cockpit plane or crossing the Alps on an elephant - Halliburton dazzled the western world. His final adventure, sailing a junk across the Pacific, was also his last. Halliburton disappeared in March 1939 and was never seen again. A great and original traveller, his wild adventures live on in the books that have captivated millions of readers and inspired generations of writers.

Reviews

From the Jazz Age through the Great Depression to the eve of World War II, he thrilled an entire generation of readers. Clever, resourceful, undaunted, cheerful in the face of dreadful odds, ever-optimistic about the world and the people around him, always scheming about his next adventure… a spokesman for the youth of a generation.
*James O’Reilly*

The book is a joy, and none but a man with the fine true instinct of a poet could have written it.
*The Spectator*