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The devil drives : a life of Sir Richard Burton
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The devil drives : a life of Sir Richard Burton
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This biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton attempts to explain what drove the famous African explorer throughout his restless life.
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The Devil drives : a life of Sir Richard Burton
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Burton was a true man of the Renaissance. He was soldier, explorer, ethnologist, archaeologist, poet, translator, and one of the two or three great linguists of his time. He was also an amateur physician, a botanist, a geologist, a swordsman, and a superb raconteur. He penetrated the sacred Muslim cities of Mecca and Medina at great risk and explored the forbidden city of Harar in Somaliland. He searched for the sources of the White Nile and discovered Lake Tanganyika. Burton's passion was not only for geographical discovery but also for the hidden in man. His enormous erudition on the sexual customs of the East and Africa, long confined by the pruderies of his time, finally found expression in the notes and commentary to his celebrated translation of the unexpurgated Arabian Nights.For this major biography of one of the most baffling heroes of any era, Fawn M. Brodie has drawn on original sources and a newly discovered collection of letters and papers. -- from Amazon.
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Letters about "No man knows my history : the life of Joseph Smith,"
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Letter from Fawn M. Brodie to Francis W. Kirkman in which she confronts Kirkman's allegations that an 1826 court document used in her book "No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith" (1945) was a fake. The letter focuses on Brodie's attempts to trace the history of the document and related court records and report her findings to Kirkman. The last page includes a handwritten note to Juanita Brooks. Includes typescript of W.D. Purple's article "Historical Reminiscences of the Town of Afton" (Chenango Union, May 3, 1877).
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No man knows my history : the life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet
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Of the many prophets who arose during the early 19th century in America, when unfettered religious liberty spawned a host of new sects "only one was destined for real glory...A century after his death [in 1844]," Mrs. Brodie writes, "Joseph Smith had a million followers who held his name sacred and his mission divine"--dust jacket.
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