A Rage To Live :A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
A Rage To Live :A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
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Published:
7 October, 1999
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Richard Burton was a brilliant, charismatic man - a unique blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed to Western scrutiny. He followed service as an intelligence officer in India by a daring penetration of the sacred Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina disguised as a pilgrim. He was the first European to enter the forbidden African city of Harar, and discovered Lake Tanganyika in his search for the source of the Nile. His fascination with, and research into, the intimate customs of ethnic races (which would eventually culminate in his brilliant Kama Sutra) earned him a racy reputation in that age of sexual repression.
Little surprise, then, that Isabel Arundell's aristocratic mother objected to her daughter's marriage to this most notorious of figures. Isabel, however, was a spirited, independent-minded woman and was also deeply, passionately in love with Richard. Against all expectations but their own, the Burtons enjoyed a remarkably successful marriage.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780349110165 |
| ISBN10 | 0349110166 |
| Number Of Pages | 928 |
| Item Weight | 640 g |
| Product Dimensions | 126 x 198 x 70 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format | paperback |
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Scholarly ... Fabulous ... The biography shines its light on that remorselessly interesting period of British history, the Victorian era * TELEGRPAH *
A monumentual biography * THE TIMES *
Gripping * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
A RAGE TO LIVE is a splendid and very enjoyable book. Mary S Lovell does her hero and heroine proud * LITERARY REVIEW *
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Author's Bio
Mary S. Lovell has written several major biographies, including The Churchills, Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton and Straight on till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham. She lives in Hampshire. For further information on books by Mary S. Lovell, please visit her website at www.lovellbiographies.com.