Burton: Snow Upon the Desert by Frank McLynn
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Overview: ‘A full account of wonderful and surprising adventures… Burton deserves this richly documented study.’ Peter Levi, Independent
Richard Burton was a phenomenon, even by the standards of his time. He risked his life visiting the sacred place of Mecca, and again entering the forbidden city of Harar. Burton travelled extensively in North and South America, India, Europe and the Middle East. His role in the notorious search for the source of the Nile led him to discovering Lake Tanganyika. The explorer’s prodigious talent for languages produced English versions of Camoens’s Lusiads, the Kama Sutra and, most famously, The Arabian Nights. However, Burton was fraught with contradictions: his remarkable public life was at odds with a deeply divided personal one. He was known for being politically reactionary and often despised groups he considered different or inferior..
Frank McLynn offers a challenging and original psychological portrait of this poet, scholar, soldier, archaeologist and explorer, drawing on new manuscript sources to clarify hitherto unexplored aspects of his life. Frank McLynn is a British author, biographer, historian and journalist. He is noted for critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Jung, Richard Francis Burton and Henry Morton Stanley. He is also the author of Fitzroy Maclean, Villa and Zapata and Bipolar, a novel about Roald Amundsen, published by Sharpe Books.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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