Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton A Biography,9780306810282

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton A Biography

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780306810282
ISBN10: 030681028X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-06-07
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
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Summary

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

Author Biography

Edward Rice is the author of twenty books, including The Man in the Sycamore Tree, Margaret Mead, and John Frum He Come. He lives in Sagaponack, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
A Note on Sources xv
Alphabets and Currencies xix
Introduction 1(8)
The Gypsy Child
9(8)
Dark and Sooty England, Sunny France
17(8)
Among the Grocers
25(12)
The Great Game
37(8)
The Griff
45(10)
The Black Wife
55(14)
The Snake Priests
69(20)
Young Egypt
89(24)
The Assassins
113(8)
The Royal Court
121(8)
The Smell of Death
129(34)
The Secret Path
163(10)
Searching for Camoes
173(24)
The Mystical Rose
197(16)
Daisy
213(18)
The Road to Mecca
231(24)
The Prophet's Tomb
255(8)
The Holiest City
263(28)
``City of Evil Fame''
291(50)
``Rotten Heads''
341(12)
The Great Safari
353(56)
``My Earthly God and King''
409(30)
Victoria's Lake
439(10)
Santa Isabel
449(32)
The Evil Nights
481(14)
Brazil
495(10)
The Emperor and Empress of Damascus
505(36)
Trieste, Sadness
541(16)
Arabian Nights
557(38)
Perfumed Gardens
595(16)
The Widow's Burning
611(10)
Notes and Major Sources 621(8)
Bibliography 629(14)
Index 643

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