The Glorious Adventure: Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus

by Richard Halliburton

Book Overview

It was perhaps inevitable that Richard Halliburton, the romantic, imaginative wanderer, would follow in the footsteps of another legendary traveler--Odysseus. Halliburton's second book recounts his journey through the Mediterranean in the shadow of his mythical hero. In Greece, Halliburton charged Mount Olympus in order to visit the gods that dwelled there; he swam the Hellespont as Byron had before him and journeyed on to Troy, where Odysseus's long...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848857713
• ISBN13: 9781848857711
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.2"