Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. Stated first edition. Quarto in olive cloth; 7 preliminary leaves, 368 pages frontispiece, plates (part double) portraits, double map 24 cm. Maps on lining papers. About fine(-) with very slight wear to exterior. Wee bit of foxing to plates. Tiny owner signature to front paste-down map. No jacket. A very bright, crisp copy. Hardcover. ISBN:
"Richard Halliburton (1900 – presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American travel writer and adventurer who swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the lowest toll in its history—36 cents in 1928.[1] He disappeared at sea while attempting to sail the Chinese junk Sea Dragon across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California. ¶ Adventure and adventurers. Travel. Latin America -- Description and travel. Amérique latine -- Descriptions et voyages.
