Richard Halliburton (1900–1939) was an adventurer, lecturer, and writer who enjoyed a short, spectacular life during which he reveled in the company of headhunters and heads of state, sages and shamans, and readers of the Ladies’ Home Journal. He published weekly syndicated columns about all he saw and did, including retracing Ulysses’s route in the Odyssey, reenacting Lord Byron’s swim across the Hellespont, and re-creating Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps on an elephant from a Paris zoo. He put to sea from Hong Kong on an outsized junk and never returned.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Seven League Boots, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2016–2017