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The glorious adventure, through the Mediterranean in the wake of Odysseus, Richard Halliburton

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The glorious adventure

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Richard Halliburton

through the Mediterranean in the wake of Odysseus

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.--, Amazon.com

The glorious adventure -- Throne of God -- Sylvania -- We charge Parnassus -- Acropolitis -- Marathon madness -- On the trail of Ulysses -- "Some corner of a foreign field" -- I swim the Hellespont -- The windy walls of Troy -- Lotus land -- The Cyclops' cave -- Stromboli: the Island of AEolus -- Circe the enchantress -- To Hell with Ulysses -- Siren isles -- Between Scylla and Charybdis -- City of the Sun God -- Fifi plays Calypso -- The princess -- Ulysses returns

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