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

from PatsyMurray

Carefully researched, this biography of Richard and Isabel Burton is an exciting, fast-paced read, if a tad too long. She mounts a strong defense of Isabel, refuting the claim that Isabel's Catholicism led her to burn all of Richard's papers. You see an Isabel who was highly intelligent and a mas...

from poulantik

a huge biography of one of the most exciting Victorian explorers and linguists. He was the first Englishman to enter Mekka )in disguise)

from john.cooper

This is the third biography that I have read of the 19th century explorer, adventurer, linguist, scholar, and Satan's body double Richard Francis Burton, and it is by far the best. (Yes, Burton, who was tall, broad-shouldered, intimidating, and very dark, often shocked others with his Mephistophe...

from john.cooper

This is the third biography that I have read of the 19th century explorer, adventurer, linguist, scholar, and Satan's body double Richard Francis Burton, and it is by far the best. (Yes, Burton, who was tall, broad-shouldered, intimidating, and very dark, often shocked others with his Mephistophe...