Don't Die In Bed: The Brief, Intense Life of Richard Halliburton

by John H. Alt

In a youthful America Richard Halliburton praised youth while a misfit, a rebel, who became wildly successful because of his wildly improbable life. He swam the Panama Canal as the S.S. Halliburton. He sailed across the Pacific in a Chinese junk. He starred in a 1930s Hollywood movie. He witnessed Japanese troops invading China. In an open-cockpit biplane he flew across the Sahara Desert to Timbuktu, looking for gasoline barrels hidden by the sand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098862320X
• ISBN13: 9780988623200
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: John
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"