The Highly Civilized Man – Richard Burton and the Victorian World (OIP) - Hardcover

Kennedy, Dane

 
9780674018624: The Highly Civilized Man – Richard Burton and the Victorian World (OIP)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674018621 ISBN 13: 9780674018624
Publisher: 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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

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

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674018621
ISBN 13 
9780674018624
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
336

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780674025523: The Highly Civilized Man Richard Burton and the Victorian World

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0674025520 ISBN 13:  9780674025523
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2007
Softcover