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 & 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
- & Li Galli, the siren isles that shimmered off the Amalfi coast. Battling through the Straits of Messina, Odysseus`s Scylla & Charybdis, he explored Sicily & Corfu before setting out for the shores of Ithaca, long-forgotten home for one, the end of an adventure for another. As epic & eventful as The Odyssey itself & one of the most captivating travel books of the 20th century, The Glorious Adventure evokes the romance of another time, when heroes & gods walked the earth.