
Halliburton was a "shooting star" because he burst upon the world scene unexpectedly and brilliantly in 1925 when his first trail blazing travel/adventure book THE ROYAL ROAD TO ROMANCE was published. He was the Pied Piper to millions the world over, spewing forth seven best-sellers filled with adventure, history, geography, poetry, physical feats, and humor until 1939 when his gaudily beautiful Chinese junk SEA DRAGON was lost in a massive Pacific storm. The onset of World War II insured a quick oblivion to the memory of his frenzied but thoroughly entertaining passage across the imaginations of the world's armchair travelers and adventurers. His life was brief and brilliant - like a shooting star - and he "met" the Well of Death not once but twice.