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02433aam a22003738i 4500 001 7307603E8A5411E8ACCF452097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180718010702 008 160711s2016 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016030556 020 $a 1631581023 020 $a 9781631581021 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3611.E5638 $b R84 2016 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 084 $a FIC014000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Kennedy, Joseph, $d 1948-2012, $e author. 245 10 $a Ruffian Dick : $b a novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton / $c Joseph Kennedy & John Enright. 260 $a $b $c 2016 263 $a 1610 300 $a pages ; cm 520 $a "Uncovered from the ashes of the British Consulate in Trieste, an archaeological excavation has found the once-thought destroyed and very private journal of Richard Burton, a man regarded as perhaps one of the greatest intellects, rogues, and colorful adventurers of the nineteenth century. In the journal's pages a different man comes to light: here is Richard Burton unplugged and uncensored--the Renaissance man of his age fully revealed. Presented as a transcription of the once-lost journal, Ruffian Dick follows the famous British adventurer into the true wilderness of American politics and the Wild West, all while the country is on the brink of the Civil War. Based on the historical fact that Burton actually did visit the United States in 1860, and traveled cross-country to study and write about the then-notorious polygamous Mormons in their stronghold at Salt Lake City, Joseph Kennedy's Doctorow-esque mixture of fact and fiction takes the reader deep into that place and time. With Kennedy's research and eye for historic detail, Ruffian Dick (as Burton was known to his contemporaries) is an adventure tale that brings to light a side of the famed explorer never seen before"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Burton, Richard Francis, $c Sir, $d 1821-1890 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Explorers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Diaries $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Historical. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Adventure fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 700 1 $a Enright, John, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l NKPD993 $d 20180718042151.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7307603E8A5411E8ACCF452097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search