Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent by Edward Rice Kama Sutra

Description: Will combine shipping on Books Magazines Comics DVDs and CDs! Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent by Edward Rice Kama Sutra. "Ten lengthy trips to India and Pakistan (formerly Sind, Baluchistan, and the Punjab), to Nepal, Iran, the Arab countries, and Israel, often using Burton's books as a guide, brought me to the realization that there was more to his life than had yet been covered. Over a period of eighteen years, while working and traveling abroad, I saw firsthand the sites of Burton's life. For periods I lived and worked in Bombay and Karachi (and also in Calcutta and Delhi). I visited Beirut and Baghdad, then Damascus, the city where Burton had been English consul for two years; worked briefly in Gaza, where Burton had searched for a kidnapped fellow officer; wandered through the streets of Istanbul, where Burton had sought a commission during the Crimean War; crossed the Somali desert now open to foreigners after Burton's successful exploration; and saw Uganda and Kenya, where he had searched for the source of the Nile. I spoke to yogis, Sufis, Sikhs, ranis, maharajas, shaykhs, drug addicts, mahouts, black marketeers, rickshaw wallahs, brahmins, and half-castes. I wandered up the Indus Valley ("the Unhappy Valley, Burton called it), and deep into India, a trip of some 1,800 miles, through lands very much a part of Burton's life, past Hyderabad, where he had lived in a brothel studying mysticism and gathering information for his general. I stopped at Lahore, once the Sikh capital, where the famous one-eyed Ranjit Singh had schemed for control of the same parts of West Asia as the English; crossed the no-man's-land of the border by foot under the wary, nervous eves of the troops of two nations nearly at war, to the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, where I circumambulated the Golden Temple. In Benares I witnessed the Sufi sword dances of the type in which Burton had been an active participant, and in Bombay and Baroda searched out the marriage and baptismal records in a vain attempt to find a mention of Burton's illegitimate son." -Edward Rice

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