Book of Marvels: The Orient

by Richard Halliburton

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
372	1	68,634	(5)	None
Written for students but loved by all ages, Marvels of the Orient takes you on a journey to some of the marvels of our world. Visit wonders both natural and man-made, places you've heard about, and others you won't believe you didn't know about before.In this book you will- - Climb the Great Pyramid - Search for the Ark of the Covenant beneath Jerusalem - Fly a Prince over Iraq - Hide in the Taj Mahal for the night - Climb Mount Fuji - Explore lost cities ...and so much more… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

Jonathan0484, Bekahs77, Cndrego, melanieval, RebeccaMeals, ebergen87, cooplibrary4, rlopes72, Menhart, k10agrimson

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

▾Member reviews

As a young boy, Halliburton's books on the Seven Wonders put me on the track of reading-for-life. What a vicarious series of adventures for a lad of ten young years! Alas, the books are long gone, but the memories endure. (

)

DomingoSantos | Mar 31, 2011 |

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors (2 possible)

▾Series and work relationships

Is contained in

The Book of Marvels by Richard Halliburton

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Book of Marvels: The Orient

Original title

Alternative titles

Marvels: The Orient

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

Written for students but loved by all ages, Marvels of the Orient takes you on a journey to some of the marvels of our world. Visit wonders both natural and man-made, places you've heard about, and others you won't believe you didn't know about before.In this book you will- - Climb the Great Pyramid - Search for the Ark of the Covenant beneath Jerusalem - Fly a Prince over Iraq - Hide in the Taj Mahal for the night - Climb Mount Fuji - Explore lost cities ...and so much more

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary