New Worlds to Conquer

by Richard Halliburton
Category: "Travel"
Pages:368
Year of Publication:1929
Date Added:01/24/2022
Date Read:01/24/2022
Notes:Halliburton travels around Central and South America, climbing Popocatepetl in Mexico, swimming the length of the Panama Canal, working his way across Argentina with a grinder-organ and a monkey, visiting Devil's Island penal colony, and stranding himself on Tobago for a month to live like Crusoe.
My Rating: 7

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Review - New Worlds to Conquer

As always, Halliburton's exploits seem ... contrived. The bit with the monkey was fun. Overall, it reads well and is informative, even if I have to read tongue-in-cheek.

Reviewed by Roger on 2022-01-24 15:05:05

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