Ruffian Dick: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton: novel

✍ Scribed by Joseph Kennedy

• Book ID: 100139275
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing;Yucca
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 188 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1631581082

✦ Synopsis

This rollicking novel blends history, biography, and adventure—reimagining the great British explorer in nineteenth-century America.

Uncovered from the ashes of the British Consulate in Trieste, an archaeological excavation has found the very private journal, once thought destroyed, of Richard Burton—a man regarded as 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 uncensored—the 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...