The Highly Civilized Man by Dane Kennedy
Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the "Tales of the Arabian Nights" and the "Kama Sutra", Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavours. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Burton travelled so widely, wrote so prolifically, and contributed so forcefully to his generation's most contentious debates that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians.
Wonderfully engaging and nuanced..This is the best biography of Burton as a man intimately involved with the central questions of his day, and of ours. - Michael Saler, Times Literary Supplement
Dane Kennedy is the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674018624 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674018621 |
| Title | The Highly Civilized Man |
| Author | Dane Kennedy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2005-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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