I loved this guy, too. I wished you could still do what he did, take time off before college, flat broke, and travel the world in relative safety then come home and write about it. I could do without the dying young part, though.
Good article. My dad read Halliburton when he was young, and I found an old copy of THE COMPLETE BOOK OF MARVELS in my 6th-grade classroom's library. I must have read it three or four times until my parents got me my own copy; it was still in print 25 years or so after Halliburton's death. (For some reason, some of the pictures differed between the two editions, and the older ones were better; I now have both my later edition and a battered copy of the earlier one on my shelves.) I don't think I could read him now, but when I was 10 or 12, his writing was wonderful.
A bunch of his books are either back in print (looks like, anyway), or readily available. https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Halliburton/e/B000APS2TQ/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1504057187&sr=8-2
The two MARVELS books became almost standard educational tools in classrooms the world over shortly after they were published. Even now (2017) they are used as such by many Home Schoolers. I discovered the usual fascination with Halliburton and his exploits by thrilling to the unique story of Henri Christophe in the MARVELS Occident version. For me Halliburton became a lifelong fascination. After I became a writer I spent 15 years researching Halliburton's life and records while traveling thousands of miles interviewing those who knew him. "A Shooting Star Meets the Well of Death, Why and How Richard Halliburton Conquered the World," Moonshine Cove Press was the result.
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I loved this guy, too. I wished you could still do what he did, take time off before college, flat broke, and travel the world in relative safety then come home and write about it. I could do without the dying young part, though.
Good article. My dad read Halliburton when he was young, and I found an old copy of THE COMPLETE BOOK OF MARVELS in my 6th-grade classroom's library. I must have read it three or four times until my parents got me my own copy; it was still in print 25 years or so after Halliburton's death. (For some reason, some of the pictures differed between the two editions, and the older ones were better; I now have both my later edition and a battered copy of the earlier one on my shelves.) I don't think I could read him now, but when I was 10 or 12, his writing was wonderful.
A bunch of his books are either back in print (looks like, anyway), or readily available.
https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Halliburton/e/B000APS2TQ/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1504057187&sr=8-2
The two MARVELS books became almost standard educational tools in classrooms the world over shortly after they were published. Even now (2017) they are used as such by many Home Schoolers. I discovered the usual fascination with Halliburton and his exploits by thrilling to the unique story of Henri Christophe in the MARVELS Occident version. For me Halliburton became a lifelong fascination. After I became a writer I spent 15 years researching Halliburton's life and records while traveling thousands of miles interviewing those who knew him. "A Shooting Star Meets the Well of Death, Why and How Richard Halliburton Conquered the World," Moonshine Cove Press was the result.
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