A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel BurtonW. W. Norton & Company, 2000 - 910 страница Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages), scholar, soldier, and explorer--at once a symbol of Victorian England's vision of empire and an avowed rebel against its mores. When she turned and saw him staring after her, she decided that she would marry him. By their next meeting, Burton had become the first infidel to infiltrate Mecca as one of the faithful, and, in an expedition to discover the source of the Nile, would soon be the first white man to see Lake Tanganyika. After being married, the Burtons traveled and experienced the world, from diplomatic postings in Brazil and Africa to hair-raising adventures in the Syrian desert. In later life Richard courted further controversy as a self-proclaimed erotologist and the translator of The Kama Sutra. Based on previously unavailable archives, Mary Lovell has written a compelling joint biography that sets Isabel in her proper place as Burton's equal in daring and endurance, a fascinating figure in her own right. |
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A GIPSY CHILDHOOD 1821184O | 1 |
UNDERGRADUATE TO GRIFFIN 184O1842 | 16 |
THE SUBALTERN 18431845 | 33 |
MIRZA ABDULLAH 18451846 | 49 |
INDIAN SUMMER 18461849 | 75 |
MISS ARUNDELL 18311852 | 91 |
FLIRTATIONS 18491853 | 107 |
THE PILGRIM 1853 | 121 |
SOUTH AMERICAN INTERLUDE 18651868 | 459 |
HOME AGAIN 18681869 | 490 |
DESTINY IN DAMASCUS 1869187O | 506 |
A SWEET UNREST 187O1871 | 531 |
PAY PACK AND FOLLOW 18711873 | 556 |
TRIESTE THE EARLY YEARS 18731875 | 590 |
A CHARMING DAY AND NO ONE DIED 18761879 | 619 |
LENGTHENING SHADOWS 1879188O | 638 |
DREAMS OF AFRICA 18531854 | 140 |
DISASTER IN THE HORN OF AFRICA 18541855 | 158 |
WITH BEATSONS HORSE IN THE CRIMEA 18551856 | 181 |
SECRET ENGAGEMENT 1856 | 204 |
THE SCENT OF CLOVES 18561857 | 222 |
THE LONG SAFARI 18561857 | 241 |
THE LAKE REGIONS 18571858 | 269 |
THE BETRAYAL SUMMER 1859 | 295 |
TURNING POINT 1859186O | 321 |
THE PRAIRIE TRAVELLER I860 | 342 |
MARRIAGE 1861 | 365 |
CONSUL IN WEST AFRICA 18611863 | 386 |
ISLAND HONEYMOON 18631864 | 415 |
SOURCE OF THE NILE 18611864 | 431 |
THE DUEL September 1864 | 443 |
ARABIAN NIGHTS 18811883 | 664 |
KAMA SHASTRA PARADIGMS OF PASSION 18831886 | 675 |
BID THE WINTER COME 1887189O | 704 |
ACTIONS AND REACTIONS 189O1891 | 737 |
HERMAPHRODITE AND THE PORNOGRAPHERS 18911894 | 764 |
LAST TINKLE OF THE CAMEL BELL 18941896 | 784 |
Epilogue | 788 |
Appendix 1 | 800 |
Appendix 2 | 803 |
Chronology | 804 |
Source Notes | 808 |
Bibliography | 887 |
Acknowledgements | 895 |
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Страница iii - Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: Who purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.