Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice

A New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first European adventurer to search for the source of the Nile to enter, disguised, the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina and to travel through remote stretches of India, the Near East, and Africa. From his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (the discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra and his seventeen-volume translation of Arabian Nights ), Burton was an engrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure, and Rice's splendid biography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated, and compelling as the man himself.

Edward Rice is the author of twenty books, including The Man in the Sycamore Tree, Margaret Mead, and John Frum He Come. He lives in Sagaponack, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780306810282
ISBN 10	030681028X
Titel	Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Autor	Edward Rice
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Hachette Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-06-07
Seitenanzahl	702
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