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"THE OCCIDENT ""A book of marvels-and a marvelous book!"" -Cincinnati Enquirer. ""Author, photographer, engraver and publisher have combined to make a most beautiful and informing book.""-Columbus Dispatch ""The story is as interesting as Halliburton's always are. The photographs are breathtakingly beautiful.""-Brooklyn Eagle ""For young people Richard Halliburton has made a selection of his most striking adventures, lavishly illustrated. A provocative book."" -New York Times ""Among the most fascinating of modern books for young people-but there is no age limit to its enjoyment.""-New Orleans States ""A magic highway to adventure."" -Nashville Banner ""It entertains and instructs. It is neither too old for the young nor too young for the old."" --Memphis Commercial Appeal THE ORIENT ""Highly exhilarating. Boys are swept back to a world in which the seven wonders were new.""-New York Herald Tribune ""The exciting prose and lavish illustrations make the trip so vivid that the reader not only sees the wonders described but knows how it feels to be there.""-St. Louis Globe ""For adults it brings to a dream-like realization places and things one may never have the opportunity of seeing. For junior readers, it is a sort of magic carpet, with fascinating promise of what they someday may travel far to gaze upon.""-Buffalo News ""Takes you over the world in the fastest time with the least effort and the most enjoyment."" -New Haven Register ""There is beauty, romance and magic adventure in this book, not for one member of the family, but for all.""-El Paso Times ""The East-in all its mystery and splendor. Such a subject, treated by such a writer as Richard Halliburton, can only result in a wonderful volume. Almost as powerful as the text are the illustrations. Beautiful photographs in wild profusion!""-Mobile Press Register"

THE OCCIDENT A book of marvels-and a marvelous book! -Cincinnati Enquirer. Author, photographer, engraver and publisher have combined to make a most beautiful and informing book. -Columbus Dispatch The story is as interesting as Halliburton's always are. The photographs are breathtakingly beautiful. -Brooklyn Eagle For young people Richard Halliburton has made a selection of his most striking adventures, lavishly illustrated. A provocative book. -New York Times Among the most fascinating of modern books for young people-but there is no age limit to its enjoyment. -New Orleans States A magic highway to adventure. -Nashville Banner It entertains and instructs. It is neither too old for the young nor too young for the old. --Memphis Commercial Appeal THE ORIENT Highly exhilarating. Boys are swept back to a world in which the seven wonders were new. -New York Herald Tribune The exciting prose and lavish illustrations make the trip so vivid that the reader not only sees the wonders described but knows how it feels to be there. -St. Louis Globe For adults it brings to a dream-like realization places and things one may never have the opportunity of seeing. For junior readers, it is a sort of magic carpet, with fascinating promise of what they someday may travel far to gaze upon. -Buffalo News Takes you over the world in the fastest time with the least effort and the most enjoyment. -New Haven Register There is beauty, romance and magic adventure in this book, not for one member of the family, but for all. -El Paso Times The East-in all its mystery and splendor. Such a subject, treated by such a writer as Richard Halliburton, can only result in a wonderful volume. Almost as powerful as the text are the illustrations. Beautiful photographs in wild profusion! -Mobile Press Register

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"Richard Halliburton was a writer, lecturer, and world traveler. He published numerous books in his short lifetime, including The Royal Road to Romance, Glorious Adventure, and The Complete Book of Marvels. Halliburton is known for having paid the lowest toll to cross the Panama Canal, which he swam in 1928, paying 36 cents. Born in Tennessee in 1900, Halliburton died in 1939 as he and his crew attempted to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, from Hong Kong to San Francisco as a publicity stunt. The vessel was unseaworthy and went down in a storm, apparently shortly after Halliburton sent out his last signal: ""Southerly gales, squalls, lee rail under water, wet bunks, hard tack, bully beef, wish you were here-instead of me!"""

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