A New York Times perfect-seller when it used to be 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 primary European adventurer to seek for the source of the Nile to go into, disguised, the forbidden towns of Mecca and Medina and to shuttle through remote stretches of India, the Close to East, and Africa. From his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (the invention and translation of the Kama Sutra and his seventeen-volume translation of Arabian Nights ), Burton used to be an engrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure, and Rice’s splendid biography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated, and compelling as the person himself.
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