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The Collector of Worlds
Hay Festival 2008,
Ilya Troyanov considers the extraordinary life of Sir Richard Burton, the first westerner to make the hajj to Mecca, discoverer of the source of the Nile, and translator of The Arabian Nights.
In association with New Books in Germany and the G
