The Devil Drives. A Life Of Sir Richard Burton

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Eland Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: Reprint

Description: 464 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Richard Burton's life offers dazzling riches. He was one of the greatest Victorian explorers, an innovative translator and brilliant linguist, a prolific travel writer, a pioneer in the fields of anthropology and sexual psychology, a mesmeric lover, a spy and a publisher of erotica. Fawn Brodie has created a vivid portrait of this remarkable man, who emerges from the richly textured fabric of his time. His travels to Mecca and Medina dressed as a Muslim pilgrim, his witnessing of the human sacrifices at Dahomey and his unlikely but loving partnership with his pious catholic bride are all treated with warmth, scholarship and understanding

ISBN: 9780907871231