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How a British Spy Drank His Way Across the Americas—and Missed the Civil War

CLOAK & DAGGER

Richard Francis Burton was one of the great adventurers of the Victorian era, and a spy. But several weeks just before the Civil War are curiously missing from his life's account.

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