Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton A Biography

This masterpiece of history and biography turns the real-life adventures of Burton into a riveting tale...The last great word on the last great explorer of the colonial age. -Wall Street Journal

Edward Rice is the author of twenty books, including The Man in the Sycamore Tree, Margaret Mead, and John Frum He Come. He lives in Sagaponack, New York.

Acknowledgments

xiii

A Note on Sources

xv

Alphabets and Currencies

xix

Introduction

1

(8)

The Gypsy Child

9

(8)

Dark and Sooty England, Sunny France

17

(8)

Among the Grocers

25

(12)

The Great Game

37

(8)

The Griff

45

(10)

The Black Wife

55

(14)

The Snake Priests

69

(20)

Young Egypt

89

(24)

The Assassins

113

(8)

The Royal Court

121

(8)

The Smell of Death

129

(34)

The Secret Path

163

(10)

Searching for Camoes

173

(24)

The Mystical Rose

197

(16)

Daisy

213

(18)

The Road to Mecca

231

(24)

The Prophet's Tomb

255

(8)

The Holiest City

263

(28)

``City of Evil Fame''

291

(50)

``Rotten Heads''

341

(12)

The Great Safari

353

(56)

``My Earthly God and King''

409

(30)

Victoria's Lake

439

(10)

Santa Isabel

449

(32)

The Evil Nights

481

(14)

Brazil

495

(10)

The Emperor and Empress of Damascus

505

(36)

Trieste, Sadness

541

(16)

Arabian Nights

557

(38)

Perfumed Gardens

595

(16)

The Widow's Burning

611

(10)

Notes and Major Sources

621

(8)

Bibliography

629

(14)

Index

643

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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton A Biography

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