Travelers' Tales Classics: The Royal Road to Romance (Paperback)

from Ella_Jill

This book was written by an American adventurer who lived between 1900 and 1939; his books and lectures were very popular in the 20s and 30s. He was from a well-off family and graduated from Princeton, but then turned his back on the dull life of a businessman which awaited him and, together with...

from breic2

This is a great story from an American who graduates from Princeton and spends the next couple years traveling around the world, supporting himself (poorly) with ingenuity and royalties from magazine and newspaper articles. It is well illustrated with photographs. He climbs the Matterhorn and Mt ...

from Dorritt

What a great read! Full of dash and swag and daring-do and, yes, romance - the romance of travel, the romance of nostalgia, the romance of an age in which an ambitious, fearless young man could decide to temporarily abandon his Princeton education and spend a couple of years wandering the world i...

from Stbalbach

The Royal Road to Romance (1925) is the first book by Richard Halliburton, an American travel writer and adventurer who was popular in the 1920s and 30s. It starts out as he graduates from Princeton at age 22 to 'seize the day' and travel around the world on romantic adventures as a tramp. Each c...

from Stbalbach

The Royal Road to Romance (1925) is the first book by Richard Halliburton, an American travel writer and adventurer who was popular in the 1920s and 30s. It starts out as he graduates from Princeton at age 22 to 'seize the day' and travel around the world on romantic adventures as a tramp. Each c...