A Rage To Live

A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

Mary S. Lovell

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English

Little Brown
01 November 1999

Biography; Biography: general; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Geographical discovery & exploration

Richard Burton was a brilliant, charismatic man - a unique blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer.

Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed to Western scrutiny.

He followed service as an intelligence officer in India by a daring penetration of the sacred Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina disguised as a pilgrim.

He was the first European to enter the forbidden African city of Harar, and discovered Lake Tanganyika in his search for the source of the Nile.

His fascination with, and research into, the intimate customs of ethnic races (which would eventually culminate in his brilliant Kama Sutra) earned him a racy reputation in that age of sexual repression.

Little surprise, then, that Isabel Arundell's aristocratic mother objected to her daughter's marriage to this most notorious of figures.

Isabel, however, was a spirited, independent-minded woman and was also deeply, passionately in love with Richard.

Against all expectations but their own, the Burtons enjoyed a remarkably successful marriage.

By: Mary S. Lovell
Imprint: Little Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 70mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9780349110165
ISBN 10: 0349110166
Pages: 928
Publication Date: 01 November 1999
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

A former accountant and Company Director Mary Lovell now lists her chief interests as horses, sailing, aviation and book collecting. She enjoys overseas travel and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She is the author of four previous biographies including the international bestseller STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING: The Biography of Beryl Markham.

Reviews for A Rage To Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

Linguist, anthropologist, explorer, diplomat, swordsman, insatiable eroticist. Burton was the most multi-talented of the eminent Victorians, and the most disreputable, a magnet for friendship and bitter enmity in equal measure. Isabel's worship of him never wavered. To cope with the mysterious alchemy of such a union is beyond this solemn, matter-of-fact biography, but it is the most thoroughly researched account of the remarkable couple to date. (Kirkus UK)