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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton : A Biography by Edward Rice (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGrand Central Publishing

ISBN-10030681028X

ISBN-139780306810282

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038697889

Product Key Features

Book TitleCaptain Sir Richard Francis Burton : a Biography

Number of Pages702 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicPersonal Memoirs, Adventurers & Explorers, Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorEdward Rice

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height2.4 in

Item Weight25.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.7 in

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SynopsisA 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.