A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel BurtonThe brilliant explorer/scholar Richard Burton was one of the most interesting men of the 19th century. Isabel was his partner, his passionate companion--the rock on which his career and his personality rested. Their adventures, quite at odds with the Victorian norm, are revealed by biographer Mary Lovell to be like chapters out of Richard's great work of translation, "The Arabian Nights". Photos. |
