Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Subtitle: A Biography
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: June 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780306810282
Subjects: Adventurers & Explorers; Historical - British; Literary; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: Richard Burton's father, Joseph Netterville Burton, was a gentleman in an age when being a gentleman was a proper calling.