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.
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..
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.
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
