The Royal Road to Romance

<p><em>The Royal Road to Romance</em> is the travel classic in which a happy young romanticist goes laughing and beating and fighting his vagabond way into the glamorous corners of the world.</p><p><br></p><p>When Richard Halliburton graduated from Princeton he chose adventure over a career traveling to far away places. This vivid book tells what happened from a break-through Matterhorn mountain ascent in the Alps to being jailed for taking forbidden pictures on Gibraltar. One of the most fascinating books of its kind ever written.</p><p><br></p><p>In 1939 the swashbuckling author was lost at sea in the Pacific.  </p>