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The Tangled Webb: A Life of Sir Richard Burton. By Jon R. Godsall, pp. xxxii, 576. Leicester, Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2008.

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The Tangled Webb: A Life of Sir Richard Burton. By Jon R. Godsall, pp. xxxii, 576. Leicester, Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2008.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2009

Geoffrey Alderman
Geoffrey Alderman*
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University of Buckingham
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 242 - 244
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References

1 F. Brodie, The Devil Drives (1967); F. McLynn, Burton: Snow Upon The Desert (1993); M. S. Lovell, A Rage To Live (1998); and Kennedy, D., The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World (Cambridge, Mass., 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Rupert Everett, ‘The Victorian Sex Explorer,’ shown on Channel 4 on 9 June 2008.

3 ‘The Burton Book,’ Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol.18, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 1–13.

4 Mr Godsall has informed me (letter, 23 October 2008) that the article by Professor Holmes and me appeared when his manuscript was in the final stages of drafting and he “was not prepared to add anything, no matter how interesting and important”.