This particular copy is a first edition in FAIR condition. No dust jacket. All pages are present, but the frontispiece has been taped back in the past and is loose again. Webbing is showing at both ends of the book, but no pages are loose.
Richard Halliburton started entertaining the world in the early 1920s. Seven League Boots was his fifth book and details his epic adventures in a variety of remote places. The resultant work doesn't have a dull page. It details how Halliburton dined with Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, interviewed the infamous assassin of Czar Nicholas II in Russia, tried to sneak into the forbidden city of Mecca, and finally, rode an elephant over the Alps in the tracks of Hannibal. It is Halliburton at his best, reckless and romantic. Seven League Boots is not just an adventure travel classic, full of photographs and surprises; it also serves as a literary memorial to its dashing, globe-trotting author.
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In the tracks of Hannibal he rode his elephant over the Alps, through the eight-thousand-foot Great St. Bernard Pass—because he thought it would be amusing. This preposterous, extravagant journey, the grandest and most original of all Halliburton adventures, caused a sensation throughout Europe.
Annihilating distance with his Seven League Boots, Halliburton strode to Ekaterinburg, in Siberia. Here he found one of the chief assassins who had carried out the massacre of Czar Nicholas II and all six members of his family. Under extraordinary circumstances the assassin, half dead from a throat malady, revealed to the author the complete and final truth about this world-famous tragedy. Not one smallest detail was withheld.
The reckless confession of the dying Bolshevik, the elephant-ride over the Alps which astonished the world in general and the Italian army in particular, are but two of the exciting episodes in the recent travels of this incurable seeker after romantic adventure. Richard Halliburton is incapable of writing a dull page, and in this book he reports each of his new adventures with the same contagious zest, the same charm and swing and dash that have won such unrivalled popularity for his other tales.
Seven League Boots is Richard Halliburton at his superb best—we recommend it unreservedly to all Mr. Halliburton's old admirers and envy those about to meet him for the first time in these pages.
—from the dust jacket of the Garden City edition
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