The Devil Drives

Autori

• Fawn McKay Brodie

Parametri

• 480 pagine
• 17 ore di lettura

• Biografie e pensieri
• Mappe e viaggi
• Saggistica
• Storia
• Turismo / Viaggi

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2003

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