The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton

8 best books like The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton (Fawn M. Brodie): Victory, The General's Daughter, Dragon and Thief, The Labyrinth Makers, The Living Mountain, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, War Game, The Alamut Ambush

AuthorJoseph Conrad
ISBN0140189785
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he...
The General's Daughter
AuthorNelson DeMille
ISBN0446364800
Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range.

Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit and...
AuthorTimothy Zahn
ISBN0765342723
Jack Morgan 13 has a dragon on his back - literally. The warrior K'da species are symbiotes, can only live six hours without their humanoid host. Draycos 30s is the sole survivor of the three ships destroyed scouting for their refugees, and Jack is the only possible choice. They may be an odd couple, but...
The Labyrinth Makers
AuthorAnthony Price
ISBN0708814964
David Audley is an unlikely spy. True, he works for England's Ministry of Defense, but strictly as a back-room man, doing meticulous research on the Middle East. This new assignment, then, comes as something of a surprise: A WWII-era British cargo place has been discovered at the bottom of a drained...
AuthorNan Shepherd
This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0857861832/ ISBN13: 9780857861832.

The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing...
AuthorEdward Rice
ISBN0060973943
I first learned of Richard Francis Burton by my disappointing reading of the copy of the Kama Sutra hidden away by my parents, then by discovering him to be among the first translators of a number of other exotic travel books and erotic classics (still unread--the Sutra had burned me!) as well as a major...
War Game
AuthorAnthony Price
ISBN0445402385
In the rural peace of modern England a war game recreates the slaughter of the Civil War. But when the battle ends, a real corpse is left it the Swine Brook; and an aristocratic but impoverished revolutionary claims to have found a cache of 'Cromwell's Gold'.

When David Audley is called in, seventeenth-century...
The Alamut Ambush
AuthorAnthony Price
ISBN0445402237
The Assassin — He was right at home in Alamut. It was there, in Northern Persia in the eleventh century, that the sect of the Assassins began at Hashashin Castle. And it is from there today that a new killer comes to spread murder throughout the Middle East. From the moment the classic car belonging to...
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