Biographies of some of the greatest adventurers of the British empire: Cecil John Rhodes, Richard Francis Burton, John Nicholson, Henry Montgomery Lawrence, William Walker, and Charles George Gordon.
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Richard Burton dreamed in 17 languages,
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What drove Richard Burton, Cecil Rhodes, "Chinese" Gordon, and three other 19th century adventurers and explorers to strive to achieve their unique and seemingly impossible goals? This book is a look at the personalities and psychology of these extraordinary men in the middle of a century when Empire dreams spread like a fever in the English speaking world. The profiles are loaded with color and details of the places and times. A fascinating and well researched glimpse into that era. Achmed Abdullah (a Romanoff)also wrote the novelization of "The Thief of Bagdad," and T. Compton Pakenham was Pacific Bureau Chief for Newsweek, based in Tokyo.
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