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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 910.4 EAN: 9781885211538 ISBN: 1885211538 Label: Travelers' Tales Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 376 Publication Date: October 30, 2000 Publisher: Travelers' Tales Studio: Travelers' Tales Editorial Review: Product Description: When Richard Halliburton graduated from college, he chose adventure over a career, traveling the world with almost no money. The Royal Road to Romance chronicles what happened as a result, from a breakthrough Matterhorn ascent to being jailed for taking forbidden pictures on Gibraltar. "One of the most fascinating books of its kind ever written." - Detroit News Average Rating:
 Rating:  - For the horizon-chaser in all of us"Name and occupation?" "Halliburton - horizon chaser." So self-identifies Richard Halliburton, author and protagonist of this story of glorious adventure. One of my weaknesses as a reader is for travelogues. I read many of them, relishing the accounts of the obscure as well as the renowned. But truly, it's not my weakness so much as the genre's strength. Travel somehow turns unexceptional literary talents into Hemingways and Nabokovs; the experience of ... Read More Rating: - Great Travel Books: The Royal Road to RomanceGreat Travel Books: The Royal Road to Romance Meknes, Morocco September 22, 2007 Homepage: Cancion del Vagabundo, http://canciondelvagabundo.googlepages.com Great Travel Books page: http://canciondelvagabundo.googlepages.com/greattravelbooks "The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking." -Richard Halliburton, Royal Road to Romance The Royal Road to Romance was the first work ... Read More Rating:  - Ugly AmericanA hard to evaluate book. In some respects it is great fun. The author, a recent college graduate, goes through a series of adventures that are often outrageous, or impossible in today's world. They reflect a different world when national borders were maybe a little less gaurded and tourism less a worldwide force. I'm not at all one to insist on "political correctness" or to judge people 80 years ago by current moral standards. At the same time, the author could be insufferably boorish, ... Read More Rating: - Fifty years and this book still sticks with meAs a child in Paris in the early 50's it was tough finding English-language books to read. Now and then my Dad would take me to a small library at the American embassy to check out books, and it was there he urged me to read Richard Halliburton. In my mind's eye I can still see that big thick book and the photo of Halliburton in front of the Taj Mahal. Hardly anyone knows his name today, but in the 1930's Halliburton's name was well-known and his travel/adventure books were best sellers. ... Read More Rating: - Fantastic ReadI am nearing the end of the book and Loving it! I purchased the book after hearing aobut Richard Halliburton on "Writer's Almanac" on NPR. This is such a wonderful and witty book that I am looking forward to sharing it with my friends and family so we can discuss it. I recommend it to anyone that wants to get a feeling of what it was really like to travel the world as a vagabond prior to WWII. |
