"This masterpiece of history and biography turns the real-lifeadventures of Burton into a riveting taleThe last great word on thelast great explorer of the colonial age." -Wall Street Journal. ANew York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice'sbiography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, andbrilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff oflegend. Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first Europeanadventurer to search for the source of the Nile; to enter,disguised, the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina; and to travelthrough remote stretches of India, the Near East, and Africa. Fromhis spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (thediscovery and translation of the Kama Sutra and hisseventeen-volume translation of Arabian Nights ), Burton was anengrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure, and Rice's splendidbiography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated, andcompelling as the man himself.
【作者简介】
Edward Rice is the author of twenty books, including The Manin the Sycamore Tree, Margaret Mead, and John Frum He Come. Helives in Sagaponack, New York.
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