The Glorious Adventure: Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus [Audiobook] download free by Richard Halliburton
- Listen audiobook: The Glorious Adventure: Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus
- Author: Richard Halliburton
- Release date: 2011/4/9
- Publisher: I.B.TAURIS & CO. LTD.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781848857711
- Rating: 9.92 of 10
- Votes: 548
- Review by: Kingston Gaylord
- Review rating: 8.48 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/6
- Duration: 2H45M7S in 256 kbps (44.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, FLAC, Shorten, MPEG-4 SLS, WAV, WMA, MPEG4 (compression ZIP, CPIO, 7Z, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 224
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M37S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Sailing, Classic Travel Writing, Guidebooks
- Download servers: Torrent, Google Drive, MEGA, FreakShare, 4Shared, Pixeldrain, OpenDrive, BitShare. Compressed in ZIP, CPIO, 7Z, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.67 USD
- Dimensions: 126x198x20.32mm
- Weight: 226.8g
- Printed by: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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