Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton A Biography

by Rice, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780306810282
• ISBN10: 030681028X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-07
• Publisher: Da Capo

Summary

This masterpiece of history and biography turns the real-life adventures of Burton into a riveting tale...The last great word on the last great explorer of the colonial age. -Wall Street Journal

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
A Note on Sources	xv
Alphabets and Currencies	xix
Introduction	1	(8)
The Gypsy Child	9	(8)
Dark and Sooty England, Sunny France	17	(8)
Among the Grocers	25	(12)
The Great Game	37	(8)
The Griff	45	(10)
The Black Wife	55	(14)
The Snake Priests	69	(20)
Young Egypt	89	(24)
The Assassins	113	(8)
The Royal Court	121	(8)
The Smell of Death	129	(34)
The Secret Path	163	(10)
Searching for Camoes	173	(24)
The Mystical Rose	197	(16)
Daisy	213	(18)
The Road to Mecca	231	(24)
The Prophet's Tomb	255	(8)
The Holiest City	263	(28)
``City of Evil Fame''	291	(50)
``Rotten Heads''	341	(12)
The Great Safari	353	(56)
``My Earthly God and King''	409	(30)
Victoria's Lake	439	(10)
Santa Isabel	449	(32)
The Evil Nights	481	(14)
Brazil	495	(10)
The Emperor and Empress of Damascus	505	(36)
Trieste, Sadness	541	(16)
Arabian Nights	557	(38)
Perfumed Gardens	595	(16)
The Widow's Burning	611	(10)
Notes and Major Sources	621	(8)
Bibliography	629	(14)
Index	643