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Author: Edward Rice
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Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Edward Rice
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Category : Explorers
Languages : en
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Author: Mary S. Lovell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334455X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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An "extraordinary biography" (New York Times Book Review) of a brilliant pair of adventurers. Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages), scholar, soldier, and explorer--at once a symbol of Victorian England's vision of empire and an avowed rebel against its mores. When she turned and saw him staring after her, she decided that she would marry him. By their next meeting, Burton had become the first infidel to infiltrate Mecca as one of the faithful, and, in an expedition to discover the source of the Nile, would soon be the first white man to see Lake Tanganyika. After being married, the Burtons traveled and experienced the world, from diplomatic postings in Brazil and Africa to hair-raising adventures in the Syrian desert. In later life Richard courted further controversy as a self-proclaimed erotologist and the translator of The Kama Sutra. Based on previously unavailable archives, Mary Lovell has written a compelling joint biography that sets Isabel in her proper place as Burton's equal in daring and endurance, a fascinating figure in her own right.
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Category : Harar, Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: Byron Farwell
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780140120684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 431
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Author: Lady Isabel Burton
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Author: Lady Isabel Burton
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Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Richard F. Burton
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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The Baital-Pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Baital is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies. It is an old, and thoroughly Hindu, Legend composed in Sanskrit, and is the germ which culminated in the Arabian Nights, and which inspired the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius, Boccacio's "Decamerone," the "Pentamerone," and all that class of facetious fictitious literature. The story turns chiefly on a great king named Vikram, the King Arthur of the East, who in pursuance of his promise to a Jogi or Magician, brings to him the Baital (Vampire), who is hanging on a tree. It is an old Hindu folk tale that was translated by Sir Richard R. Burton from the original Sanskrit.
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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