Books about Burton

A Rage to Live (Mary Lovell) | Christopher Ondaatje | Isabel Burton | Other

A Rage to Live (Mary Lovell)

Amazon. Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell. Nine customer reviews.

Review of A Rage to Live by John Reader, National Review, Dec 7, 1998.

"Though Mary Lovell's narrative neglects none of the adventure of Richard Burton's life, it is the story of Isabel that gives the book its fresh insight and authority. Isabel may have been the product of Victorian society at its most staid, but she was no blue-stocking."

Review of A Rage to Live by Lindley Kirksey (scroll past first review) for Explorer's Web .

W. W. Norton blurb on A Rage to Live. A good blurb.

Web Archive: A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard & Isabel Burton reader review by Ian Williams for Rowena Hart's Richard Burton page.

Web Archive: Review of A Rage to Live by Mary S. Lovell. Reviewed by Carolyn K. Brock for Ex Libris Explication.

Christopher Ondaatje

Amazon. Journey to the Source of the Nile by Christopher Ondaatje. Paperback now available.

Review of Ondaatje's Journey to the Source of the Nile by Paul Williams Roberts for the Globe and Mail. From Ondaatje.com (wonderful author site).

Review of Ondaatje's Journey to the Source of the Nile by Laszlo Buhasz for Globe And Mail. Something seems wrong with the attribution or article. From Ondaatje.com (wonderful author site).

"World Praise" for Journey to the source of the Nile. Page from Ondaatje.com (wonderful author site).

Review of Ondaatje's Journey to the Source of the Nile by Haroon Siddiqui for the Toronto Star. From Ondaatje.com (wonderful author site).

Isabel Burton

Amazon. Isabel Burton, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, 2 Vol. Set. The price is steep, but it is a specialty item and it's nice to see it in print.

Isabel Burton, The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton , 1897. Excerpt from her unfinished autobiography. Completed and reworked by W. H. Wilkins. A fascinating document courtesy A Celebration of Women Writers. Also here.

Other

Blurb on The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton by his wife Isabel Burton. Reprint of 2 vol. 1893 edition. (Vedams Books)

Web Archive: Bibliography of works on Burton, from Fawn Brodie's The Devil Drives: The Life of Sir Richard Burton. From Ken Garson's Burton page.

Excerpt from The White Nile by Alan Moorehead. From the Gorp! Adventure library.

Review of El Capitan Richard F. Burton by Edward Rice. Reviewed by Javier del Rio.

Web Archive: Death Rides a Camel reader review by Ron Dingman for Rowena Hart's Richard Burton page.

Huntington library publications blurbs on Catalogue of the Library of Sir Richard Burton by B. J. Kirkpatrick, In Search of Richard Burton: Papers from a Huntington Library Symposium, edited by Alan H. Jutzi, and Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa: Four Lectures from a Huntington Library Manuscript edited by John Hayman.

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