Ruffian Dick: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton
By John Enright and Joseph Kennedy
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
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 then-notorious polygamous Mormons in their stronghold at Salt Lake City, this mixture of fact and fiction takes the reader deep into that place and time.
With the author’s research and eye for historic detail, Ruffian Dick—as Burton was known to his contemporaries—is an adventure tale that brings to light a side of the famed explorer never seen before.
John Enright
John Enright was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1945. He earned a bachelor’s degree from City College of New York while working full-time at Fortune, Time, and Newsweek magazines. He later received a master’s degree in folklore at UC Berkeley, before starting a career in publishing. In 1981, Enright left the United States to teach at the American Samoa Community College. He spent the next twenty-six years working for environmental, cultural, and historical resource preservation on the islands in the South Pacific. Over the past five decades, his essays, articles, short stories, and poems have appeared in more than ninety books, anthologies, journals, periodicals, and online magazines. His collection of poems 14 Degrees South won the University of the South Pacific Press’s inaugural International Literature Competition. Enright currently lives in Owensboro, Kentucky, with his wife Connie Payne.
Read more from John Enright
Fire Knife Dancing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPago Pago Tango Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlood Jungle Ballet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dead Don't Dance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRuffian Dick: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Jerusalem News: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Some People Talk with God: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Coast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Ruffian Dick
Related ebooks
Mr Mee Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton (Vol. 1&2): Biography of Famous British Author and Adventurer, by His Wife Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Suffragette to Fascist: The Many Lives of Mary Sophia Allen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRichard Burton Explorer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlaubert Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Marvelous Bodies: Italy's New Migrant Cinema Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Companion to American Technology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rabble!: A Story of the Paris Commune Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Life of a Simple Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsZone of the Interior: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Epitacio Pessoa: Brazil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDownstream Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisguise Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Chautauqua Institution: 1874-1974 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Purse Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Murnane Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Reconstructionist: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Orange in the Underground Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Patter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Parisian Bourgeois' Sunday and Other Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wanderers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Drift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Night of the Long Knives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOlalla Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDance of the Apprentices Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Oblomov Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Child of the Jago: A Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Historical Fiction For You
The Grapes of Wrath Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5East of Eden (Original Classic Editions) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Carnegie's Maid: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Demon Copperhead: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Tender Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebecca Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5That Bonesetter Woman: the new feelgood novel from the author of The Smallest Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Have and to Hoax: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kitchen House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Island of Sea Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sold on a Monday: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Eve Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls in the Stilt House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yellow Wife: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Euphoria Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rules of Magic: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hallowe'en Party: Inspiration for the 20th Century Studios Major Motion Picture A Haunting in Venice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Second Life of Mirielle West: A Haunting Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Ruffian Dick
0 ratings0 reviews