A stunning fictionalized account of the infamous life of British colonial officer and translator sir Richard Francis Burton this fictionalized account imagines the life of sir Richard Francis Burton--a nineteenth-century...A stunning fictionalized account of the infamous life of British colonial officer and translator sir Richard Francis Burton this fictionalized account imagines the life of sir Richard Francis Burton--a nineteenth-century British colonial officer with a rare ability to assimilate into indigenous cultures. Burton's obsessive traveling took him from England to British india, arabia, and on a quest for the source of the nile river in africa.