Richard Halliburton, American journalist and author (died 1939)

Richard Halliburton

American travel writer and adventurer (1900–1939)

Richard Halliburton was an American travel writer and adventurer who, among numerous journeys, swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the lowest toll in its history, 36 cents, in 1928. He disappeared at sea while attempting to sail the Chinese junk Sea Dragon across the…