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

    By John Enright and Joseph Kennedy

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    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 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9781631581083
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    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.  

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