The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton
By Iliya Troyanov.
Description
“Iliya Troyanov has turned Burton’s unbelievable life into believable fiction, achieving a rounded and satisfying portrait that traditional biography could never match.”—New York Times Book ReviewThe Collector of Worlds is a fictionalized account of the infamous life and times of Sir Richard Francis Burton—the British colonial officer stationed in India who made the Haj to Mecca, discovered the source of the Nile, spoke twenty-nine languages, and translated A Thousand and One Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra into English. The winner of the fiction prize of Ger...
ISBN(s)
0061351938, 9780061351938
