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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton
The Devil Drives A Life of Sir Richard Burton
Author: Fawn McKay Brodie
"Starting in a hollowed log of wood--some thousand miles up a river with infinitesimal prospect of returning, I ask myself `Why?' and the only echo is `damned fool!...the Devil drives.'" So wrote Richard Francis Burton, while preparing for an exploration of the lower Congo in 1863. Tormented by the question of "why?", his answer "the devil driv...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393301663
ISBN-10: 0393301664
Publication Date: 7/1984
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
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