1930s NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER SIGNED RICHARD HALLIBURTON Latin American Adventure

Description: NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER Written by Richard Halliburton and published by Garden City Publishing Company. Copyright 1929; this book is the reprint edition. The book has been signed by Richard Halliburton on the top of the front endpaper. This was the customary place for Halliburton to sign his books. The book has map endpapers (different front and back) showing the route the took through Mexico, Central and South America. The frontispiece is a photo of Richard Halliburton standing on the summit of the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl. There are many other black and white photo plates taken of the journey as well. From Wikipedia: Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history—36 cents[1]—Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career. His final and fatal adventure, an attempt to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, made him legendary. DESCRIPTION: 368 pages 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches hardcover CONDITION: This hard-cover book is in very good condition with a fair dust jacket. The black cloth cover is clean and shows only light wear at the corners and spine ends. The interior is very nice with no names (other than the authors), other marks, underlining, tears or odor. The paper is mildly toned with age. The hinges and binding are very good with no loose or missing pages. Book Content description: Following the trails of the early Spanish discoverers, Richard Halliburton tells of his adventures in the glamorous lands to the south of us. The trail of Cortez’s conquest of Mexico he followed on foot, climbing, twice, to Popocatepetl’s lofty crater, and in Yucatan, land of the ancient Mayas, he found the famous Well of Death where human sacrifices were thrown to the Rain God, and from which a hundred skeletons of men and girls have been dredged. His fifty-mile Panama Canal swim was an adventure that attracted wide newspaper notice, since for he first time the great locks of the canal were opened to lift and lower a single individual. He found and climbed the peak in Darien from which Balboa first stared a the Pacific and in Peru, the land of the Incas, he searched out the hidden mountain city of Manchu Picchu to which the hundred sacred Sun Virgins escaped from Pizarro and his men. Then he flew to French Guiana to see for himself the horrors of the Devil’s Island prison colony, to know many of the tragic castaways, and to hear their stories. Here, indeed, is a knapsack full of the true adventurer’s gold—dreams brought to reality by the alchemy of courage and daring. BECAUSE MEDIA RATE SHIPPING IS FREE ON THE BOOKS I SELL, COMBINE THIS WITH OTHER ITEMS FROM MY EBAY STORE. I AM AN EXPERIENCED EBAY SELLER (23+ YEARS) AND SHIPPER WITH 100% (always!--since 1997!) FEEDBACK RATING. ALL ITEMS ARE CAREFULLY AND SECURELY PACKED TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE DANGER OF CRUSHING AND OR WATER/MOISTURE DAMAGE. ALL BOOKS ARE SHIPPED IN STURDY BOXES WITH TRACKING AND DELIVERY CONFIRMATION INCLUDED. I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE ALL OF THE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND SIGNATURES ON BOOKS I SELL.

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