R i c h a r d H a l l i b u rt o n

Adventures across the World from Arabia to Abyssinia

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new Foreword by

Tahir Shah

Richard Halliburton (19001939) was Americas greatest adventurer and one of the most successful adventure travel writers of the twentieth century. Through a life spent chasing horizons and concocting ever more daring schemes from swimming the length of the Panama Canal to flying around the world in an open cockpit plane or crossing the Alps on an elephant Halliburton dazzled the Western world. His final adventure, sailing a junk across the Pacific, was also his last. Halliburton disappeared in March 1939 and was never seen again. A great and original traveller, his wild adventures live on in the books that have captivated millions of readers and inspired generations of writers.

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Adventures across the World from Arabia to Abyssinia Richard Halliburton
Foreword by Tahir Shah

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New paperback edition published in 2013 by Tauris Parke Paperbacks An imprint of I.B.Tauris and Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 First published in 1936 by Lowe and Brydone Printers Limited Foreword copyright Tahir Shah, 2013 Cover image: Sailboat caught in front of a large swell Antar Dayal / Getty Images All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978 1 78076 138 1 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Cox & Wyman, Reading, RG1 8EX