The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie

The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton

Fawn M. Brodie

408 pages first pub 1967 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel reflective slow-paced
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Starting in a hollowed log of wood--some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool . . . the Devil drives "So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration...

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