{"product_id":"9781937327354","title":"A Shooting Star Meets the Well of Death","description":"AMAZING STUNTS, IMPROBABLE ADVENTURES, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR-RICHARD HALLIBURTON WAS ALL OF THESE AND SO MUCH MORE AS THIS CAREFULLY RESEARCHED, EXCITING BIOGRAPHY SHOWS.\u003cp\u003e\"...entertaining and very well-researched...This book should be high on any traveler's reading list.\"-Ian Usher (traveler, writer, adventurer, speaker - author of Life Sold). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...an interesting and sometimes funny book about a man who should have a book next to Lindbergh and Earhart.\"-Henry H. Holden, author of \"Great Women in Aviation #2 - Florence Lowe \"Pancho\" Barnes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRINCETON GRADUATE HALLIBURTON VAULTED ONTO THE BEST SELLER LIST WITH HIS FIRST TRAVEL\/ADVENTURE BOOK AND NEVER LOOKED BACK. HE BLASTED OUT SIX MORE OF THE SAME DESPITE INNER CONFLICTS AND BATTLES WITH CRITICS THEN VANISHED IN WAGNERIAN SPLENDOR WHILE SAILING A GAUDY CHINESE JUNK INTO A 1939 PACIFIC TYPHOON.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...Was Halliburton a daring adventurer...or...a dilettante who...staged spectacular stunts?...Both...are true...and this is the fascination of his paradoxical personality.\"--Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jr., longtime writer for the National Geographic Society, author of My Favorite Place on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...we hope many readers will share our memories of this unique man and his adventures, and welcome this fine work into your libraries.\"-Robert J. Gormley, former publisher Northeastern University Press, Orbis Books and Chatham House Publishers; Beatrice Gormley, author of YA biographies including the forthcoming Nelson Mandela, Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Taylor...revives the memory of this dashing debonair of derring-do. A welcome addition to the libraries of all aficionados of adventure literature. Bravo.\"-Scott Wallace, author of The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053665632496,"sku":"9781937327354","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937327354_p0.jpg?v=1763660568","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937327354","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}