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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography
 
 

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography (Paperback)

by Edward Rice (Author) "Richard Burton's father, Joseph Netterville Burton, was a gentleman in an age when being a gentleman was a proper calling ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 688 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc; Reprint edition (3 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 030681028X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0306810282
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 334,351 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This masterpiece of history and biography turns the real-life adventures of Burton into a riveting taleThe last great word on the last great explorer of the colonial age." -Wall Street Journal. 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fully does justice to Burton's amazing character and life., 4 Sep 2001
This biography fully does justice to Richard Burton's astonishing career and character; not dry, academic or dull, and without any of the amatuer psychology and supposition that so often clouds modern biographical insight. Burton lived the life of which (especially Victorian) heroes were made: a brilliant linguist, expert swordsman, Sufi mystic, explorer par excellence, participant in the Great Game. He achieved more in countless fields than even the most impressive of men achieve in one. Edward Rice's book fully captures both the multi-faceted nature of this great man, examining his life in detail and conveying the rich sense of adventure and curiosity which drove Burton through India, Central Asia, Africa, South America, and richly evoking the time and character of these exotic, hypnotic places. Burton himself was a great storyteller and it is in this vein, perhaps, that the book best elicits its subject: fascinating, admirable, beguiling. Thoroughly recommended.
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