About this title: "The Royal Road to Romance" chronicles the author's choice of adventure over career after graduating from college in the early 1900s, and includes his recollections of a breakthrough ascent of the Matterhorn to being jailed on Gibraltar for taking forbidden photos.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Inc, Gard
Date Published: 1925
Description: Good. Hinge cracked at half-title page. NO DJ. Boards worn along edges. Pages browning. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden publishing & Co., Garden City New York
Date Published: 1925
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Fair. No Jacket Fair. No Jacket Corners heavy bumped and heavy edge wear and soiled, name inside from the former owner heavy soiled and pages yellowed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Company, New York
Date Published: 1925
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint edition. black cloth on boards, dark yellow letters at spine, clean, lightly rubbed, corners sharp, hinges tight. bookplate at front pastedown, ffep clean, illustrated. text clean, black and white photo illustrations, 399 pages. nice copy for the collector. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City publishing Company
Date Published: 1925
Description: Good. An old-fashioned library withdrawal with a card pocket pasted on the inside back cover. Stamped in the inside front cover page and on the inside front cover. A nice text though the pages have yellowed some. The covers seems sturdy. Some scuff to the covers and shelf wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The BobbsMerrill Company
Date Published: 1925
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket. Gift inscription inside on a blank page. Text clean and intact with some edge wear/aging to pages. Brown cloth cover rubbed with edge wear and bumping. Unknown printing. 399 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis
Date Published: 1925
Description: Good. No Jacket. Good. No Jacket Good. No Jacket Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Ex-lib with stamps, good reading copy 399 p., [46] p. of plates: ill., ports.; 24 cm. Call number of original: G463. H25. Master microform held by: DLC. read more
"A dear friend recommended this just before he died...said that his elementary school teacher had suggested he read it as a youngster, and that idea steered him to a life of travel and adventure. The book is delightful, a bit of purple prose from days gone by."
"My aunt recommended Halliburton books to me when I was ten, and they were among the first books I ever bought for myself. I still have all five (this one, The Glorious Adventure, New Worlds to Conquer, Seven League Boots and The Flying Carpet). Wonderful travelogues."
"At first I got a little bored of this book. That's probably why it took me three or four months to read but that is neither here nor there. What is of significance is that I picked it up last week and finished reading the 2'nd half of the book. And I finished it in enjoyment. My complaint against the beginning of "Royal Road to Romance" was that Halliburton's lofty speech got to me, in an annoying way. I found his writing to be overdone yet I kept reading because although he can give too many details at times, sometimes he can write very eloquently. Plus his adventures were interesting and at times captivating. I found his journeys through Asia to be the most entertaining. Halliburton also was kind of bad-ass. His attempt and completion of Mt. Fuji was pretty ballsy. He comes across as stubborn, full of life, admittedly arrogant, prejudice and extremely passionate. All in all I would recommend this book to anyone who loves too travel and wants to read about a time in the world when traveling as an adventurer was vanishing but had not vanished. And I would give it a 3.75 out of 5 stars."
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