The Collector of Worlds
20 hrs. 49 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Ilija Trojanow
Author
Ilija Trojanow
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Description
The novel “A Collector of Worlds” is inspired by the life and work of Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), a secret agent, the first Briton to complete the Hajj to Mecca, a translator of Kama Sutra and “One Thousand and One Nights,” a researcher of the sources of the Nile and the ways of life of American Mormons.
The plot follows in detail the biography of his early youth, but at times it strays far from the surviving evidence, inventing an entertaining story of the protagonist’s life—“an exemplary British man of the late 19th century,” with the elegant bearing of an intelligence officer, a lover hero, and “the beloved of truth,” bearing the burden of the white man through the jungles of India, the sands of Arabia, and the wilds of Africa.
This award-winning work of the Leipzig Book Fair (2007) is an individual approach to the mystery of the Other—driven not only by the desire to uncover it, but also to enrich oneself through it.
The plot follows in detail the biography of his early youth, but at times it strays far from the surviving evidence, inventing an entertaining story of the protagonist’s life—“an exemplary British man of the late 19th century,” with the elegant bearing of an intelligence officer, a lover hero, and “the beloved of truth,” bearing the burden of the white man through the jungles of India, the sands of Arabia, and the wilds of Africa.
This award-winning work of the Leipzig Book Fair (2007) is an individual approach to the mystery of the Other—driven not only by the desire to uncover it, but also to enrich oneself through it.
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