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Devil Drivesby Fawn M. BrodieISBN 0345215982 (0-345-21598-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Devil Drives : A Life of Sir Richard Burtonby Fawn M. BrodieISBN 0140033238 (0-14-003323-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burtonby Fawn M. BrodieISBN 0393301664 (0-393-30166-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton'Book summary:"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 Review
Starting in a hollowed log of woodsome 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 for an exploration of the lower Congo in 1863, wrote to Monckton Milnes from the African kingdom of Dahomey. His answer, "the Devil drives," applies not only to his geographical discoveries but also to the whole of his turbulent life.
Burton was a true man of the Renaissance. He was soldier, explorer, ethnologist, archaeologist, poet, translator, and one of the two or three great linguists of his time. He was also an amateur physician, a botanist, a geologist, a swordsman, and a superb raconteur. He penetrated the sacred Muslim cities of Mecca and Medina at great risk and explored the forbidden city of Harar in Somaliland. He searched for the sources of the White Nile and discovered Lake Tanganyika.
Burton's passion was not only for geographical discovery but also for the hidden in man. His enormous erudition on the sexual customs of the East and Africa, long confined by the pruderies of his time, finally found expression in the notes and commentary to his celebrated translation of the unexpurgated Arabian Nights.
For this major biography of one of the most baffling heroes of any era, Fawn M. Brodie has drawn on original sources and a newly discovered collection of letters and papers. [via]More editions of The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton:
From Crossbow to H-Bombby Fawn M. BrodieISBN 0253201616 (0-253-20161-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smithby Fawn M. BrodieISBN 0394469674 (0-394-46967-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith The Mormon Prophetby Fawn M. BrodieISBN 0679730540 (0-679-73054-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Richard Nixonby Fawn M. BrodieISBN 0674768809 (0-674-76880-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate Historyby Fawn M. BrodieISBN 0393317528 (0-393-31752-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History'Book summary:An ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this best-selling biography broke new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life.
Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political writing and his decision making. The portrait that results adds a whole new depth to those of the past. [via]More editions of Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History:
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Softcover, Bantam Books - Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History: ISBN 0393074803 (0-393-07480-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History: ISBN 0413285103 (0-413-28510-3)
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