Richard Halliburton and the Voyage of the Sea Dragon

"From Memphis, Tennessee, Richard Halliburton (1900-1939) is best known as a pioneer of adventure journalism. His career included numerous articles and books recounting his adventures, most notably his swim of the Panama Canal and his treks through the Mediterranean and Mexico retracing Ulysses's odyssey and Cortez's Spanish conquest, respectively. His final stunt was to sail a junk from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939, a stunt that would cement his legend but also claim his life. Gerry Max's book focuses on Halliburton's time in Hong Kong; his painstaking efforts to build a junk and hire a crew during the Second Sino-Japanese War; his quarrels with Captain Welch; his thinly veiled homosexuality and relationship with Paul Mooney; and finally his death after the junk sank somewhere west of Midway Island"--

About the author

GERRY MAX has taught a number of humanities-related courses at both Lakeland College and the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Horizon Chasers: The Lives and Adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul Mooney.

Summary

Set against the backdrop of a China devastated by invading Japanese armies and the storm clouds of world war gathering in Europe, Richard Halliburton and a crew of fourteen set out to build and sail a junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco in March 1939. This book follows the dramatic arc of this ill-fated expedition in fine detail.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Max
• Publisher: University Of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781621905769
• ISBN: 978-1-62190-576-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Asia / China