num_pages: 544
description: s/t: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra &amp; Brought the Arabian Nights to the WestA NY Times bestseller when first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic &amp; 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 &amp; Medina; &amp; to travel thru remote stretches of India, the Near East &amp; Africa. From his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (the discovery &amp; translation of the Kama Sutra &amp; his 17-volume translation of Arabian Nights), Burton was an engrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure. Rice's biography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated &amp; compelling as the man himself.
language: English
title: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
titlecomplete: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
characters: Richard Francis Burton
genres: Adventure, Historical, History, Islam, Travel, India, Biography Memoir, Africa, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1045
publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (NYC)