Burton

Burton PDF Author: Byron Farwell
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
The man who searched for the source of the Nile, became the first non-Moslem to visit Mecca, and translated the Arabian nights, among other adventures.

Sindh Revisited

Sindh Revisited PDF Author: Christopher Ondaatje
Publisher: Long Riders Guild Press
ISBN: 9781590482216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Sindh Revisited is the remarkable story of the author's fascination with the early life of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). It is the story of an incredible journey, too - deep into the heart of British India, and the India and Sindh of today. The very name of Sir Richard Burton conjures up images of adventure. His search for the source of the Nile with John Hanning Speke contributed to his being the best-known traveller of the nineteenth century. Burton was an outstanding orientalist, archaeologist, linguist, anthropologist, and a controversial diplomat. Christopher Ondaatje's Sindh Revisited is the extraordinarily sensitive account of the author's quest to uncover the secrets of the seven years Richard Burton spent in India in the army of the East India Company from 1842 to 1849. "If I wanted to fill the gap in my understanding of Richard Burton, I would have to do something that had never been done before: follow in his footsteps in India." The journey covered thousands of miles-trekking across deserts where ancient tribes meet modern civilization in the valley of the mighty Indus River.

Paths Without Glory

Paths Without Glory PDF Author: James L. Newman
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597975966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton. A true polymath, Burton is best known today for his translations of the "Kama Sutra" and "Arabian Nights." Yet, Africa stood at the center of his adult life. The Burton-Speke expedition (1856 59) that put Lake Tanganyika on the map led to years of controversy over the source of the White Nile. From 1861 to 1864 Burton served as British consul in Fernando Po and traveled widely between Ghana and Angola. He wrote prodigiously and contributed some of the first detailed ethnographic accounts of Africa s peoples. In many ways, however, Africa proved to be Burton s undoing. Injuries and sickness sapped his strength, he made enemies in high places, and, ironically, even the discovery of Lake Tanganyika worked to his disadvantage. Increasingly frustrated and bitter, he turned to alcohol as a frequent remedy.In this fascinating story of the relationship between a man and a continent, geographer James L. Newman provides an intimate portrait of Burton through careful examination of his journals and biographers rich analyses. Delving deepest into Burton s later life and travels, Newman pinpoints the thematic mainstays of his career as a diplomat and explorer, namely his strong advocacy of aggressive imperial policies and his belief that race explained crucial human differences. Historians and scholars of the golden age of empire, as well as armchair adventurers, will not only discover what defined this famously enigmatic figure, but venture, themselves, into the heart of mid-nineteenth-century Africa. "

The Collector of Worlds

The Collector of Worlds PDF Author: Ilija Trojanow
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061351938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470

Book Description
This fictionalized account imagines the life of Sir Richard Francis Burton--a 19th-century British colonial officer and translator with a rare ability to assimilate into indigenous cultures.

The Lake Regions of Central Africa

The Lake Regions of Central Africa PDF Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 458

Book Description
The ivory porter; Zanzibar town from the sea; A town on the Mrima; Explorers in East Africa; The East African Ghauts; View in Unyamwezi

The Book of the Sword

The Book of the Sword PDF Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description

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