Gerry Max ’67
Horizon Chasers: The Lives and Adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul
Mooney, by Gerry Max ’67.
Paperback, 320 pages, McFarland & Company, December 2006.
Gerry Max is an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Lakeland
College.
Richard Halliburton was the quintessential world traveler of the early 20th century.
He called himself a “horizon chaser,” advancing the idea that one
should see the world before committing to a routine. Not only did he live up
to his ideal, but he was eager to write about his adventures. A prolific partnership
with editor and ghost writer Paul Mooney produced excellent work and became a
close personal relationship. Halliburton and Mooney disappeared at sea on March
24, 1939, along with the crew of Halliburton’s Chinese junk Sea Dragon,as they attempted to cross the Pacific.
Horizon Chasers records the life and adventures of Halliburton and Mooney, focusing
on the productive literary collaboration between the two.
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