Highly Civilized Man - Kennedy Professor Dane
Highly Civilized Man - Kennedy Professor Dane Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the…
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Highly Civilized Man - Kennedy Professor Dane
Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Burton traveled so widely, wrote so prolifically, and contributed so forcefully to his generation's most contentious debates that heprovides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of theVictorians.One of the great challenges confronting the British in the nineteenth century was to make sense of the multiplicity of peoples and cultures they encountered in their imperial march around the globe. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavors.
Drawing on Burton played an important role in this mission.