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A Rage To Live - A Biography Of Richard And Isabel Burton (Paperback)
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A Rage To Live - A Biography Of Richard And Isabel Burton (Paperback)
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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.
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