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Ruffian Dick ─ A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton
- ISBN13：9781631581021
- 出版社：Yucca Pub
- 作者：Joseph Kennedy; John Enright (EDT)
- 裝訂／頁數：精裝／248頁
- 規格：24.1cm*16.5cm*2.5cm (高/寬/厚)
- 出版日：2016/10/25
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Playboy on the History Channel at Animal HouseRuffian Dick delivers a ride through rough-shod America that rings truer than any history book.” John Enright, author ofNew Jerusalem News
Uncovered from the ashes of the British Consulate in Trieste, an archaeological excavation has found the once-thought destroyed and very private journal of Richard Burton, a man regarded as perhaps one of the greatest intellects, rogues, and colorful adventurers of the nineteenth century. In the journal’s pages a different man comes to light: Here is Richard Burton unplugged and uncensoredthe Renaissance man of his age fully revealed.
Presented as a transcription of the once-lost journal, Ruffian Dick follows the famous British adventurer into the true wilderness of American politics and the Wild West, all while the country is on the brink of the Civil War. Based on the historical fact that Burton actually did visit the United States in 1860, and traveled cross-country to study and write about the then-notorious polygamous Mormons in their stronghold at Salt Lake City, Joseph Kennedy’s Doctorow-esque mixture of fact and fiction takes the reader deep into that place and time.
With Kennedy’s research and eye for historic detail, Ruffian Dick (as Burton was known to his contemporaries) is a men’s adventure tale that brings to light a side of the famed explorer never seen before.
Uncovered from the ashes of the British Consulate in Trieste, an archaeological excavation has found the once-thought destroyed and very private journal of Richard Burton, a man regarded as perhaps one of the greatest intellects, rogues, and colorful adventurers of the nineteenth century. In the journal’s pages a different man comes to light: Here is Richard Burton unplugged and uncensoredthe Renaissance man of his age fully revealed.
Presented as a transcription of the once-lost journal, Ruffian Dick follows the famous British adventurer into the true wilderness of American politics and the Wild West, all while the country is on the brink of the Civil War. Based on the historical fact that Burton actually did visit the United States in 1860, and traveled cross-country to study and write about the then-notorious polygamous Mormons in their stronghold at Salt Lake City, Joseph Kennedy’s Doctorow-esque mixture of fact and fiction takes the reader deep into that place and time.
With Kennedy’s research and eye for historic detail, Ruffian Dick (as Burton was known to his contemporaries) is a men’s adventure tale that brings to light a side of the famed explorer never seen before.
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Joseph Kennedy, recently deceased, was a professional archaeologist and writer living in Hawaii who had spent a great deal of time in both England and America researching the life of Sir Richard Burton. Kennedy is also the author of the books,Coca Exotica, The Tropical Frontier, and The North Shore of O’ahu, and was a regular contributor toNatural History Magazine. In addition to many publications in professional journals, he had also written forScientific American’s Discovering Archaeology, Mobius Magazine, Pacifica, Archaeology, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, andHawaii Architectural Digest. He lived in Pupukea, Hawaii.
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