A Rage to Live by Mary S. Lovell

A Rage to Live

Mary S. Lovell

910 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel challenging informative slow-paced
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The 19th-century explorer Richard Burton was a blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in 29 languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed to Western scru...

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