Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

Resumen del libro

A New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first European adventurer to search for the source of the Nile to enter, disguised, the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina and to travel through remote stretches of India, the Near East, and Africa. From his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (the discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra and his seventeen-volume translation of Arabian Nights ), Burton was an engrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure, and Rice's splendid biography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated, and compelling as the man himself.

Biografía del autor

Edward Rice (Nueva York, 1918-2001), escritor, pintor, periodista y fotógrafo, viajó por Asia y África, trabajó para Naciones Unidas y fue autor de más de veinte libros, entre los que destacan: x{0026}lt;em The Man in the Sycamore Tree: The Good Times and Hard Life of Thomas Mertonx{0026}lt;/em ; x{0026}lt;em Margaret Mead: A Portraitx{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;em John Frum He Come: A Polemical Work about a Black Tragedyx{0026}lt;/em . Fue fundador de la revista x{0026}lt;em Jubileex{0026}lt;/em en 1953.