Description: It was perhaps inevitable that Richard Halliburton, such a romantic, imaginative wanderer, would follow in the footsteps of another legendary traveller - Odysseus. Halliburton's second book, The Glorious Adventure describes 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 adventure began. He sailed to Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian Sea, home of Aeolus god of the winds; then to the Bay of Naples, Circeo - 'island' of Circe - and Li Galli, the siren isles that shimmered off the Amalfi coast. Battling through the Straits of Messina, Odysseus's Scylla and Charybdis, he explored Sicily and Corfu before setting out for the shores of Ithaca, long-forgotten home for one, the end of an adventure for another. As epic and eventful as The Odyssey itself and one of the most captivating travel books of the 20th century, The Glorious Adventure evokes the romance of another time, when heroes and gods walked the earth.
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EAN: 9781838601843
UPC: 9781838601843
ISBN: 9781838601843
MPN: N/A
Book Title: Glorious Adventure : Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
Topic: Special Interest / Adventure, Sailing, Ancient / Greece, Europe / General, Europe / Greece
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2019
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Sports & Recreation, History
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Author: Richard Halliburton
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
