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Lost at Sea at Age 39
HALLIBURTON, Richard (1900-1939). Adventurer, travel writer, explorer. Known for swimming the Panama Canal, paying the lowest toll in the canal’s history, 36 cents. His Flying Carpet tour took 18 months circumnavigating the globe covered 33,600 miles visiting 34 countries. His last venture was attempting to cross the Pacific in a Chinese junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco. In bad weather, the ship apparently sunk and Halliburton was lost at sea. His empty grave has a stone marker in Memphis, Tennessee which reads “Richard Halliburton, Lost at Sea”. His book: “Seven League Boots.” The Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1935. First Edition. Four hundred-seventeen pages, illustrated. Signed in full on the verso of his portrait. Light spotting on covers otherwise in G-VG condition. This is the author’s 5th and last book...................$77.50
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