The 19th-century explorer Richard Burton was a blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in 29 languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed to Western scrutiny. He followed service as an intelligence officer in India with a daring penetration of the sacred Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina disguised as a pilgrim. He was the first European to enter the forbidden African city of Harar, and discovered Lake Tanganyika in his search for ...
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The 19th-century explorer Richard Burton was a blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in 29 languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed to Western scrutiny. He followed service as an intelligence officer in India with a daring penetration of the sacred Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina disguised as a pilgrim. He was the first European to enter the forbidden African city of Harar, and discovered Lake Tanganyika in his search for the source of the Nile. His fascination with, and research into, intimate ethnic customs, which would eventually culminate in his "Kama Sutra", earned him a racy reputation in that age of sexual repression. Isabel Arundell's aristocratic mother objected to her daughter's marriage to this notorious figure, but Isabel was a spirited, independent-minded woman, and was also passionately in love with Burton. This book tells the story of their successful marriage.
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Add this copy of A Rage to Live: a Biography of Richard and Isabel to cart. $16.00, very good condition, Sold by Weiser Antiquarian Books, Inc., ships from Cape Neddick, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Little Brown.
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Hardcover. Octavo. xviii + 910pp. Black textured papered boards lettered in silver on spine. Map endpapers. B/w plates. Index & bibliography. Slight discoloration to boards, faint foxing to page-edges, otherwise a solid, clean VG copy in near-VG dust jacket (dust jacket has a large tide-mark on its verso).
Add this copy of A Rage to Live: a Biography of Richard and Isabel to cart. $23.01, very good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Little, Brown.
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