The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton

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.

• | Author: Fawn Brodie
• | Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2003
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780907871231
• | ISBN-10: 0907871232