Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - Softcover

Ondaatje, Christopher

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9781590482216: Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

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ISBN 10: 1590482212 ISBN 13: 9781590482216

Publisher: The Long Riders' Guild Press, 2006

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Sindh Revisited Sindh Revisited is the remarkable story of the author's fascination with the early life of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). It is the story of an incredible journey, too - deep into the heart of British India, and the India and Sindh of today. The very name of Sir Richard Burton conjures up images of adventure. His search for the source of the Nile with John Hanning Speke contributed to his being the best-known traveller of the nineteenth century. Burton was an outstanding orientalist, archaeologist, linguist, anthropologist, and a controversial diplomat. Christopher Ondaatje's Sindh Revisited is the extraordinarily sensitive account of the author's q...

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