The Royal Road to Romance, Signed by author Richard Halliburton

The Royal Road to Romance, Illustrated, Signed by author Richard Halliburton, with beautiful original Dust Jacket. Covering travels in the Matterhorn, Andorra, the Alhambra, Seville, Gibraltar, Monte Carlo, the Nile, Punjab, Kashmir, Ladakh, the Khyber Pass, Angkor, Bangkok, Bali, Japan and the ascent of Mt. Fuji

Author: Halliburton, Richard

8vo.(5.5" x 8.125") 1925. Halliburton, Richard. Garden City New York: Garden City Publishing Company [Bobbs-Merrill / Star Books] Full black publishers cloth with multiple blindstamp frames to covers. Spine with gilt title/author towards head and gilt publisher at foot. In a Near Fine dust jacket with some tiny closed tears to edges. Dust jacket printed in black, green, yellow, and tan. Brodart protected. Top edge yellowed, rough cut fore-edge. Minor edgewear to covers, tiny hole in rear joint (see pic). Map printed endpapers with author's signature neatly to the top of the first free endpaper. A beautiful book, autographed.

From Wiki: Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American travel writer and adventurer who swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the lowest toll in its history—36 cents in 1928. He disappeared at sea while attempting to sail the Chinese junk Sea Dragon across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California. Halliburton's books were meant for the general reading public. Into households across America, they brought the world's many divergent peoples and cultures. Racist comments their author made, though for the time not unique to him, when revisited today, are unsettling. At times ethnocentric, he thought it "extraordinary" that "such a primitive race" as the Seri Indians residing in Lower California "should live so close to (presumably civilized) Hollywood." Of the blending of races and cultures he encountered, Halliburton attempted to be descriptive rather than judgmental. Still, intrigued by the "slim Sonias" working in Blood Alley in Shanghai, he seemed both amused and dismayed by the interracial mingling that their physical appearances suggested to him: "When Chinese blood and foreign blood are mixed, especially if the foreign blood is Russian, Portuguese or French, the devastating result is something to write home about." Halliburton's ideas on miscegenation are traceable partly to racist notions prevalant in his day. One source was Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920). Covering the Matterhorn, Andorra, the Alhambra, Seville, Gibraltar, Monte Carlo, the Nile, Punjab, Kashmir, Ladakh, the Khyber Pass, Angkor, Bangkok, Bali, Japan and the ascent of Mt. Fuji, The Royal Road to Romance is his first book.

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