Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton by Byron Farwell

Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton

Byron Farwell

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nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Explorer and inventor, soldier and poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was the most versatile and remarkable man of his age. But he was foremost an adventurer: "an adventurer in the intellectual and the spiritual a...

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