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"This masterpiece of history and biography turns the real-life
adventures of Burton into a riveting taleThe last great word on the
last great explorer of the colonial age." -Wall Street Journal. A
New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice''s
biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and
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 and Medina; and to travel
through remote stretches of India, the Near East, and Africa. From
his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments the
discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra and his
seventeen-volume translation of Arabian Nights , Burton was an
engrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure, and Rice''s splendid
biography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated, and
compelling as the man himself.
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Edward Rice is the author of twenty books, including The Man
in the Sycamore Tree, Margaret Mead, and John Frum He Come. He
lives in Sagaponack, New York.
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