New Worlds to Conquer HALLIBURTON, Richard

Item Description: London: Geoffrey Bles, 1936. Hardback with dustjacket. Approx 6 inches by 9 inches. 368pp with b/w photos. Dust jacket tatty. Book tight and clean in VG condition. Map endpapers Adventures following in the footsteps of the early explorers such as Columbus, Cortez and Pizarro in America.A memoir of adventures in South America in the 1920s, illustrated with black & white photographs. CONTENTS: Prologue: The New World; The Conquest of Mexico; Popo and Papa; Popo's Surrender; The Well of Death; High-Diving; The Land Where the Corals Lie; The Filibusters; The S.S. Richard Halliburton; The Magic Stairs; Only Forty Miles to Go; Upon a Peak in Darien; El Mar del Sur; Inca Gold; How to Meet a President; And the President Said to Me; Lima Nights; The End of Pizarro; The Place Where the Sun is Tied; Virgin Ghosts; Alexander Selkirk's Empire; Monkey Business; My Traveling Circus; Farewell to Nino; Devil's Island; De Profundis; Convict Number 49,766; The Blockhaus; Les Iles du Salut; Liberte -- Egalite -- Fraternite; Poor Richard Crusoe; Crusoe's Island; O Solitude!; The Man Who Was Toosday