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Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton
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Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton

Author : Byron Farwell
Narrated By : Simon Vance
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 18 hours 30 minutes
Type : Biography
Price : $33.95
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Explorer and inventor, soldier and poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was the most versatile and remarkable man of his age. But he was foremost an adventurer: "an adventurer in the intellectual and the spiritual as well as the physical world." The pioneering traveler in Central Africa who discovered Lake Tanganyika was also the translator of The Arabian Nights and the secret translator of Oriental sex manuals like The Perfumed Garden. The man who made a dangerous pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise also produced major writings on reptiles and religion, mining and mountain-climbing, slavery and sexuality.

Byron Farwell brilliantly recreates the sheer excitement of Burton's achievements and astonishing range of interests in this fascinating biography.

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