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COLLECTOR OF WORLDS
ILIYA TROYANOV

FABER AND FABER (JUN 2008)
HARDBACK, in the, 464 pages, 242 x 163 mm.
Prod. # 9780571236534 (British edition)

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COLLECTOR OF WORLDS British paperback edition
COLLECTOR OF WORLDS: A NOVEL OF SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON American hardcover edition
COLLECTOR OF WORLDS American trade paper edition

Sir Richard Burton was the first westerner to make the hajj to Mecca, he also discovered the source of the Nile with Speke. This book imagines his encounter with India as a young officer, and brings to life his trials and travels through the eyes of his Indian servant, the Sharif of Mecca and the former slave who guided Burton to the Nile.

This fictionalized account imagines the life of Sir Richard Francis Burton--a 19th-century British colonial officer and translator with a rare ability to assimilate into indigenous cultures. ... from the American hardcover edition

Tells the story of Sir Richard Burton, one of the most flamboyant figures of the Victorian age. This book tells us that his translation of the "Arabian Nights" is one of the great moments in the encounter between Islam and the West, a version of the Arab classic that scandalised his contemporaries with its salty eroticism. ... from the British paperback edition

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