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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton

By Fawn M. Brodie
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By Fawn M. Brodie
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"Brilliant. . . . [Brodie's] scholarship is wide and searching, and her understanding of Burton and his wife both deep and wide. She writes with clarity and zest. The result is a first class biography of an exceptional man."—J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book ReviewStarting in a hollowed log of wood—some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!" So Richard Francis Burton, preparing fo...

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