It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be... Time has beenaltered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is oneof the few people who know that the world is now careening along avery different course from that which Destiny...
London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton—explorer, linguist,scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career intatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. AlgernonCharles Swinburne—unsuccessful poet and follower of de...