Richard Halliburton and the Voyage of the Sea Dragon

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"From Memphis, Tennessee, Richard Halliburton (1900-1939) is best known as a pioneer of adventure journalism. His career included numerous articles and books recounting his adventures, most notably his swim of the Panama Canal and his treks through the Mediterranean and Mexico retracing Ulysses's odyssey and Cortez's Spanish conquest, respectively. His final stunt was to sail a junk from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939, a stunt that would cement his legend but also claim his life. Gerry Max's book focuses on Halliburton's time in Hong Kong; his painstaking efforts to build a junk and hire a crew during the Second Sino-Japanese War; his quarrels with Captain Welch; his thinly veiled homosexuality and relationship with Paul Mooney; and finally his death after the junk sank somewhere west of Midway Island"--