Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton - Byron Farwell torrent

Category: Adults, Autobiography & Biographies, Documentary, History
Language: English
Keywords: 19th Century Africa explorers Travel

Written by Byron Farwell
Read by Simon Vance
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Explorer and inventor, soldier and poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was the most versatile and remarkable man of his age. But he was foremost an adventurer: “an adventurer in the intellectual and the spiritual as well as the physical world.”

The pioneering traveler in Central Africa who discovered Lake Tanganyika was also the translator of The Arabian Nights and the secret translator of Oriental sex manuals like The Perfumed Garden. The man who made a dangerous pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise also produced major writings on reptiles and religion, mining and mountain climbing, slavery and sexuality.

Byron Farwell brilliantly recreates the sheer excitement of Burton’s achievements and astonishing range of interests in this fascinating biography.