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Captain sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
Edward Rice
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Da Capo Press
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Captain sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th - Rice, Edward
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Synopsis "Captain sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th"
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.
