num_pages: 465
description: Richard Burton's life offers dazzling riches. He was one of the greatest Victorian explorers, an innovative translator and brilliant linguist, a prolific travel writer, a pioneer in fields of anthropology and sexual psychology, a mesmeric lover, a spy and a publisher of erotica. Fawn Brodie has created a vivid portrait of this remarkable man, who emerges from the richly textured fabric of his time. His travels to Mecca and Medina dressed as a Muslim pilgrim, his witnessing of the human sacrifices at Dahomey and his unlikely but loving partnership with his pious Catholic bride are all treated with warmth, scholarship and understanding.
language: English
title: The Devil Drives: A life of Sir Richard Burton
titlecomplete: The Devil Drives: A life of Sir Richard Burton
characters: Richard Francis Burton
genres: Historical, Biography, Adventure, Nonfiction, Classics, History, Travel, Biography Memoir, Africa, Victorian
ratings_count: 489
publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd