A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

An extraordinary biography 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.