Complete Book Of Marvels

by Richard & Illus Halliburton

Overview

Take A Whirlwind Tour of the Wonders of the World

Explore the wonders of the world with America's foremost adventurer, Richard Halliburton. In the Complete Book of Marvels Halliburton takes you with him on thrilling journeys to countless wonders of the world, including natural features like Gibraltar, the Grand Canyon, and Mount Fuji, and famous or forgotten temples and ancient cities, and monuments bigger than life. He follows in the footsteps of Demetrius and traverses the Great Wall.

Replete with historical facts, maps, and a treasure trove of unique restored photographs of both well-known and hidden wonders, Halliburton journeys with the reader by his side to reveal the beauty and mystery of the world's greatest sights as if for the very first time. As a youth Richard Halliburton dreamt of seeing the many mysterious lands and exotic locales beyond the horizon, and by the time he was a teenager he set out to do just that. During his life, his voyages took him to an enormous variety of truly marvelous places, from familiar American landmarks to the far reaches of the globe.

Combining the separately published The Occident and The Orient, the Complete Book of Marvels is a timeless classic book for the whole family. The stirring accounts of adventures all over the world inspired a generation of explorers and continues to spark the fires of wanderlust in anyone who discovers it.

This book is also available from Echo Point Books in paperback (ISBN 1648370365).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635617108
Publisher:	Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Publication date:	03/10/2021
Edition description:	Restored Reprint ed.
Pages:	642
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.88(d)

About the Author

Richard Halliburton was a writer, lecturer, and world traveler. He published numerous books in his short lifetime, including The Royal Road to Romance, Glorious Adventure, and The Complete Book of Marvels. Halliburton is known for having paid the lowest toll to cross the Panama Canal, which he swam in 1928, paying 36 cents. Born in Tennessee in 1900, Halliburton died in 1939 as he and his crew attempted to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, from Hong Kong to San Francisco as a publicity stunt. The vessel was unseaworthy and went down in a storm, apparently shortly after Halliburton sent out his last signal: "Southerly gales, squalls, lee rail under water, wet bunks, hard tack, bully beef, wish you were here-instead of me!"

Table of Contents

Book 1: The Occident

I. A Marvelous Bridge

II. The Golden Gate

III. The Highest Waterfall

IV. The Deepest Canyon

V. The Greatest Dam

VI. Niagara

VII. New York

VIII. Washington

IX. Fort Jefferson

X. Popocatepetl

XI. The Rain God's City

XII. Christophe's Castle

XIII. The Panama Canal

XIV. The Angel Architects

XV. Iguazu Falls

XVI. The River of January

XVII. Gibraltar

XVIII. Carcassonne

XIX. Mount St. Michael

XX. The Ornament and the Honor of France

XXI. The Tiger of the Alps

XXII. The Monastery of St. Bernard

XXIII. St. Peter's

XXIV. August 24th, in the Year 79

XXV. The City that Rose from the Dead

XXVI. The Magic Grotto

XXVII. Athena's Temple

XXVIII. No Woman's Land

XXIX. The Heart of Russia

XXX. The Mother of Churches

Book 2: The Orient

I. The Travels of Demetrius

II. Halicarnassus

III. The Colossus

IV. The Pharos

V. The First Wonder of the World

VI. The Pyramids Today

VII. The Labyrinth

VIII. The Slave City

IX. The Smoke That Sounds

X. Allah's Children

XI. The Enchanted Temple

XII. The Dead Sea

XIII. The Rock of Abraham

XIV. Treasure Hunters

XV. Baalbek

XVI. Zenobia

XVII. The Prince and the Flying Carpet

XVIII. Babylon

XIX. Home of the Nightingales

XX. Wonderland

XXI. My Hindu Princess

XXII. A Love Story

XXIII. The Glory of Asia

XXIV. The Top of the World

XXV. Land of Mystery

XXVI. Palace of the Living Gods

XXVII. Thirty Million Idols

XXVIII. A Tale from the Jungle

XXIX. The Great Stone Serpent

XXX. The Magic Mountain

Editorial Reviews

THE OCCIDENT

"A book of marvels-and a marvelous book!" -Cincinnati Enquirer.

"Author, photographer, engraver and publisher have combined to make a most beautiful and informing book."-Columbus Dispatch

"The story is as interesting as Halliburton's always are. The photographs are breathtakingly beautiful."-Brooklyn Eagle

"For young people Richard Halliburton has made a selection of his most striking adventures, lavishly illustrated. A provocative book." -New York Times

"Among the most fascinating of modern books for young people-but there is no age limit to its enjoyment."-New Orleans States

"A magic highway to adventure." -Nashville Banner

"It entertains and instructs. It is neither too old for the young nor too young for the old." --Memphis Commercial Appeal

THE ORIENT

"Highly exhilarating. Boys are swept back to a world in which the seven wonders were new."-New York Herald Tribune

"The exciting prose and lavish illustrations make the trip so vivid that the reader not only sees the wonders described but knows how it feels to be there."-St. Louis Globe

"For adults it brings to a dream-like realization places and things one may never have the opportunity of seeing. For junior readers, it is a sort of magic carpet, with fascinating promise of what they someday may travel far to gaze upon."-Buffalo News

"Takes you over the world in the fastest time with the least effort and the most enjoyment." -New Haven Register

"There is beauty, romance and magic adventure in this book, not for one member of the family, but for all."-El Paso Times

"The East-in all its mystery and splendor. Such a subject, treated by such a writer as Richard Halliburton, can only result in a wonderful volume. Almost as powerful as the text are the illustrations. Beautiful photographs in wild profusion!"-Mobile Press Register

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