An Elephant Invades Italy in 1936 July 24, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary
Night four of Beachcombing’s Elephant week extravaganza is taken up by Richard Halliburton’s attempt to cross the Alps in 1936 on the back of an African elephant. Halliburton, a fun kind of fellow, managed to hire (and insure!) an […]
German Crusaders lost in Central Asia? June 29, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Medieval
Beachcombing often stretches himself pretty thin in covering the centuries and sometimes he just doesn’t have the languages to check up properly on a story. With these caveats he offers his readers the following tale that reads like a late Victorian or Edwardian boy’s own adventure. The text comes from Richard Halliburton’s Seven League Boots, […]
