Seven League Boots

Adventures Across the World from Arabia to Abyssinia

Richard Halliburton, Tahir Shah

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I B TAURIS
15 April 2020

Memoirs; Travel & holiday; Classic travel writing

'I had been commissioned to go anywhere in the world I wished and write whatever pleased me. My only orders were to move fast, visit strange places, to meet whomever was interesting - and to start at once.'

Richard Halliburton's fifth and last book, Seven League Boots, illustrates how he followed these orders with passion and abandon. America's favourite adventurer dined with Haile Selassie and rode the Rhinoceros Express in Ethiopia; he had an audience with King Ibn Saud outside the gates of Mecca (which he had tried to sneak into) and finally rode an elephant over the Alps in the tracks of another great adventurer, Hannibal.

This is Halliburton at his best: reckless and romantic. It is also the last chapter of a life that had, at its end, grown tragic. Nearing forty, physically exhausted, and in financial trouble, Halliburton thought to roll the dice once again, hoping that the charm which had always saved him in the past would materialise one more time. But it was not to be. His last journey was fatal. Soon after finishing this book, he attempted to sail a junk across the Pacific, but never returned.

By: Richard Halliburton
Foreword by: Tahir Shah
Imprint: I B TAURIS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 282g
ISBN: 9780755617579
ISBN 10: 0755617576
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 April 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

New Foreword by Tahir Shah Introduction: Seven League Boots I. Devil's Island in America II. Eight Volunteers for Death III. A Battle and a Cat IV. His Majesty the Dishwasher V. The Black King's Castle VI. The Bones of Columbus VII. How to Buy an Elephant VIII-XII. The Massacre of the Romanoffs 1. The Assassin 2. The Victims 3. The Death House 4. Slaughter 5. Postscript XIII. The Wheat and the Emeralds XIV. Mrs. Lenin XV. The Hundred Happiest Children in the World XVI. Straight Talk from Russia XVII. The Oldest Man in the World XVIII. The Last of the Crusaders XIX. Out of Russia XX. The Sultana of Turkey - from Martinique XXI. No Woman's Land XXII. The Involuntary Monk XXIII. The City of the Minotaur XXIV. The Deadliest Sport in History XXV. Horror Island XXVI. Scarlet Sister Salome XXVII. Hadji Halliburton XXVIII. The Giant XXIX. The Rhinoceros Express XXX. The King of Kings XXXI. In the Tracks of Hannibal XXXII. Uphill XXXIII. Half-way to Heaven XXXIV. The Elefantessa

Richard Halliburton (1900-1939) was America's great adventurer and one of the most successful adventure travel writers of the 20th century. His final adventure, sailing a junk across the Pacific, was also his last. Halliburton disappeared in March 1939 and was never seen again. His wild adventures live on in the books that have captivated millions of readers and inspired generations of writers.

Reviews for Seven League Boots: Adventures Across the World from Arabia to Abyssinia

From the Jazz Age through the Great Depression to the eve of World War II, he thrilled an entire generation of readers. Clever, resourceful, undaunted, cheerful in the face of dreadful odds, ever-optimistic about the world and the people around him, always scheming about his next adventure… a spokesman for the youth of a generation. -- James O’Reilly