Complete Book Of Marvels

Product Description
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 hardcover (ISBN 1635617103).
Review
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
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: Sout