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Pages: 948
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Describes the accomplishments of the British explorer and scholar, and the relationship between him and his unconventional wife.
A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
Language: en
Pages: 948
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Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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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
And the Rest Is History
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Pages: 201
Authors: Marlene Wagman-Geller
Categories: Reference
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Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till tonight. -Romeo and Juliet Antony and Cleopatra, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo,
Women Adventurers, 1750Ð1900
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The past quarter-century has seen a number of biographies and anthologies on women travelers but to date there has been little comprehensive reference work done
Marvellous Thieves
Language: en
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Authors: Paulo Lemos Horta
Categories: History
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Ranging from the coffeehouses of Aleppo to the salons of Paris, from Calcutta to London, Paulo Lemos Horta introduces the poets and scholars, pilgrims and charl