The Flying Carpet: Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuktu to Everest and Beyond [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Halliburton, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1848859147 ISBN 13: 9781848859142

Casa editrice: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2011

Riassunto

'I've just given myself an airplane and I want you to fly us to all the outlandish places in the world, Turkey, Persia, Paris and - Pasadena. We're going to fly across deserts, over mountains, rescue imprisoned princesses and fight dragons. We must have the world. We can have the world!' Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet. For Halliburton it was the ultimate in romantic, risky exploration and was a means of seeing the world in a way that few had ever seen it before. True to form, his journey was breathtakingly audacious. They performed aerobatics in Fez, landed in mysterious Timbuktu, spent time with the French Foreign Legion in Algeria and explored Cairo, Damascus and Petra. In Iran, they met legendary aviatrix Ella Beinhorn and gave Princess Mahin Banu a ride. In Iraq, it was the turn of King Faisal's young son, Ghazi, who was escorted by two RAF fighter planes.
In India, they flew over the Taj Mahal - upside down - and, soaring over the Himalayas, Halliburton took the first aerial photograph of Everest. In Borneo they were entertained by Sylvia Brooke, the 'White Queen of Borneo', and by the chief of the Iban Dyak headhunters, who gave them dozens of shrunken heads. A journey as dazzling as Halliburton himself and, with the world at war less than a decade later, marking the end of an era, the story of The Flying Carpet is as captivating today as it was to the world 80 years ago.

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'From the Jazz Age through the Great Depression to the eve of World War II, he thrilled an entire generation of readers. Clever, resourceful, undaunted, cheerful in the face of dreadful odds, ever-optimistic about the world and the people around him, always scheming about his next adventure - a spokesman for the youth of a generation.' --James O'Reilly

'Halliburton made me lustfully aware that the world was very big and very old; that its seeable wonders and its learnable stories were innumerable; and that I might see these wonders myself and learn the stories attached to them.' --Susan Sontag

'Richard Halliburton did more than most to give travel writing its reputation as a dream job.' --Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times

'He swam the Hellespont and crossed the Alps on an elephant. So what reader could resist an invitation to travel the world with Richard Halliburton?' --David Shariatmadari, Guardian

'Richard Halliburton did more than most to give travel writing its reputation as a dream job.' --Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times

Descrizione del libro:

New Foreword by Tahir Shah. Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet.

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• Editore: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848859147
• ISBN 13: 9781848859142
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 264