Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Posted: 2014/10/20 Filed under: Book Reviews, Lust To Go, NonFiction | Tags: 2014, adventure, biography, book lust iii, book review, Edward Rice, NonFiction, october, Richard Burton Leave a commentRice, Edward. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: the Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990.
Doesn’t the subtitle of this book just about rope you in? If the subtitle doesn’t do it for you, how about the man himself? Explorer, scientist, secret agent man? Capable of speaking 29 different languages, supposedly most of them in their proper dialect. Thought to be a Gypsy. If anything, Burton should have the title of Most Interesting Man. He inherited his father’s wanderlust and would often move his family without reason. And, what about that Kama Sutra? Come again? In all fairness, I couldn’t finish the book. Interesting man or not, the writing just wasn’t. This is a classic case of “Did Not Finish.”
Reason read: Burton died in the month of October
Book trivia: There are a few photographs in Sir Richard Burton. Pity there weren’t more – Burton was an interesting looking fellow.
BookLust Twist: from Book Lust To Go in the chapter called “Star Trekkers” (p 222).
