Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil...

£1,450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Posted as Consol at Santos, Sao Paulo’s port in 1865, Burton sailed to Rio de Janeiro before travelling into the interior and down the Sao Francisco by raft. Lady Burton herself saw the work through publication, writing a particularly interesting Preface in which she gives vent to her personal feelings with regard to her husband’s views on religion and polygamy, begging the “fair or gentle reader” to bear in mind that her husband is writing “from a high moral pedestal”! Penzer, p78-80; Casada, 33.

• Year: 1869

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