Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571236541
Published:
05.03.2009
No of pages:
464
Other Editions: Hardback
The Collector of Worlds
Iliya Troyanov
The Collector of Worlds is a meditation on the extraordinary life of infamous explorer Sir Richard Burton. The first westerner to make the hajj to Mecca, he also discovered the source of the Nile with Speke. His translation of the Arabian Nights is one of the great moments in the encounter between Islam and the West, that scandalised his contemporaries with its salty eroticism.
Troyanov’s novel does full justice to this great, controversial mediator between cultures. The 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.
Tags
Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
General Fiction
Places:
Egypt;
India
Genres & Themes:
Victorian;
Exploration;
Islam
Characters:
Sir Richard Burton
Explorers of the Nile
Tim Jeal
A BBC RADIO FOUR BOOK OF THE WEEK
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the ...
Speke
Alexander Maitland
John Hanning Speke was one of the great Victorian explorers and his most famous achievement was the discovery in 1862 of the main source of ...
To the Frontier
Geoffrey Moorhouse
To the Frontier is the compelling and vivid account of Geoffrey Moorhouse’s three-month journey through Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab to the legendary North-West ...
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