ofiF to find the source of the Nile.n(Burton’s voyage is recounted in thenrecent film The Mountains of thenMoon.) He came close, but battlesnwith the African peoples he encountered—nand roundly despised — and angrowing rivalry with Speke botched hisnmission. Speke sagely named the headwatersnLake Victoria and took singlencredit for this heroic act of discovery.nStill Burton could not settle down.nIn 1860, intrigued by stories he hadnheard of a strange and faraway cult,nBurton traveled by stagecoach acrossnAmerica to Salt Lake City, where henhad an audience with Brigham Young,nwho had heard of Burton’s wondrousnadventures. (Burton wrote warmly ofnYoung in his two-volume City of thenSaints.) Rice’s account of Burton’sntime in Utah and later San Francisco,nwhich Burton did not like, is particularlynrevealing, for it shows a man nownbeginning to feel the wear of travel andnthe boredom of novelty.nHe returned to Africa, posted asnconsul to Cape Verde, a place he hatednmore than any other he had seen.nWithout authorization, he skipped offnto the mainland, paddling his way upnand down the Congo and Niger rivers,nmapping the inland waterways. Henthen accepted a posting to Brazil,nwhere Isabel founded a Catholic girls’nschool and Burton, now thoroughlynbored, fell into chronic drunkenness.nHe left the coast, blindly roamed theninterior of South America from Tierrandel Fuego to Ecuador, and summonednIsabel to abandon Brazil and join himnin Damascus, where, now a worn-outnold man, he enjoyed a spectacularlynunsuccessful diplomatic career untilnbeing ordered to head the seldomvisitednBritish consulate in Trieste,nwhere he died.nIn all of his travels. Burton foundnthe time to write a staggering quantitynof books — 51 titles in all, most of themncomprising more than one volume.nFluent in 29 languages, he translatednmany more books that are now regardednas classics of world literature: Camoen’snLusiads, the Kama Sutra, and thenenchanting Arabian Nights, erotic passagesnand all. For his troubles, he wasnawarded another epithet, that of pornographernin an outraged but receptivenVictorian England. Immediately afternhis death, Isabel Arundell stole awaynthe tiniest bit of her husband’s renownnfor herself by burning hundreds ofnpages of his unpublished translationsnand original musings on sex, the onenact for which she is now remembered.nCaptain Sir Richard Francis Burton’snfame as explorer, soldier, andnman of letters will endure for as long asnthere are stories to tell and listeners tonhear them. Perhaps the greatest of thenmany great English travelers, henshunned romanticism and sought toncomprehend the new worlds he found.nEdward Rice’s biography is an outstandingnintroduction to the man andnhis work.nGregory McNamee’s latest book isnThe Return of Richard Nixon andnOther Essays, published last year bynHarbinger House.nBring Back the IronnDukenbyH.W. Crocker innThe Way of the WASP:nHow It Made America andnHow It Can Save It . . .nSo to Speaknby Richard BrookhisernNew York: The Free Press;n171 pp., $19.95nThe United States was founded bynwhite Anglo-Saxon Protestantsnand became the political, economic,nand military leader of the free worldnunder their guidance. The conscience,nindustry, practicality, antisensualism,nThe RetreatnFrom MarriagenCauses and ConsequencesnEdited by Bryce ChristensennA provocative investigation of the unprecedentedndrop in the marriage rate in recent decades,nthis timely volume brings together papersnand commentary from a conference sponsorednin May, 1989 by The Family Research Councilnand the Rockford Institute’s Center on thenFamily in America. The third volume in thenRockford Institute’s Family in America ResearchnSeries, this book features articles and analysis fromnmore than a dozen prominent scholars including:nHerbert SmithnUniversity of PennsylvanianJack DouglasnUniversity of California,nSan DiegonNorval GlennnUniversity of Texas at AustinnJacqueline KasunnHumboldt UniversitynJustice Richard NeelynWest Virginia Supreme Courtnof AppealsnPaul VitznNew York UniversitynFor your copy, send $20.00 per paperback,n$37.25 cloth, plus $2.00 postagenand handling (add ,50