The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton And The Victorian World - Couverture rigide

Kennedy, Professor Dane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674018621 ISBN 13 : 9780674018624

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the "Tales of the Arabian Nights" and the "Kama Sutra", Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavours. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Burton travelled so widely, wrote so prolifically, and contributed so forcefully to his generation's most contentious debates that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dane Kennedy is the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674018621
• ISBN 13: 9780674018624
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
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