A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
10 best books like A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton (Mary S. Lovell): Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War, Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton, To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer, The Sea and the Jungle
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| ISBN | 1400096197 |
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| ISBN | 0195066723 |
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| ISBN | 0374161623 |
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| ISBN | 0140120688 |
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| ISBN | 0060505575 |
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| ISBN | 0810160110 |
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| ISBN | 0060973943 |
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| ISBN | 0393315193 |
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| Author | David Mattingly |
| ISBN | 0140148221 |
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| ISBN | 1850772274 |
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| ISBN | 0679770046 |
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| ISBN | 0374529574 |
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| ISBN | 0375757465 |
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| ISBN | 0743270894 |
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| ISBN | 0671864114 |
Dejeuner Sur L'herbe in the Musee d'Orsay
From page 245 (my book)
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