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Mary S. Lovell

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

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An extraordinary biography (New York Times Book Review) of a brilliant pair of adventurers.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 fi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-34455-4
  • EAN: 9780393344554
  • Produktnummer: 34246782
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
  • Seitenangabe: 944 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 5'311 KB
  • Abbildungen: Illustrated

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Mary S. Lovell's best-selling biographies include Straight on Till Morning (Beryl Markham) and The Sisters (the Mitford family). She lives in England.

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