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Name: Seven League Boots

Author: Richard Halliburton
Year: 1935
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9781590480816
9781780761381
1590480813
1780761384

Richard Halliburton started entertaining the world in the early 1920s. "Seven League Boots" was his fifth, and last, book and details his epic adventures in a variety of remote places. The resultant work doesn't have a dull page. It details how Halliburton dined with Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, interviewed the infamous assassin of Czar Nicholas II in Russia, tried to sneak into the forbidden city of Mecca, and finally, rode an elephant over the Alps in the tracks of Hannibal. It is Halliburton at his best, reckless and romantic.

"Seven League Boots" is not just an adventure travel classic, full of photographs and surprises. It also serves as a literary memorial to its dashing, globe-trotting author.