Sir Richard Francis Burton

March 19, 1821 to October 19, 1890

Born in Torquay, England & Died in Trieste, Italy

Linguist, explorer, and writer who translated the Kama Sutra and Arabian Nights. Burton has fascinated generations of biographers, and his personal adventures sound like something out of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

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"I make no apology for the egotistical semblance of the narrative. . ."

Off-Site Resource

Fascinating Website on Sir Richard Francis Burton

Bibliography

Scinde or the Unhappy Valley - 1851

Goa and the Blue Mountains - 1851

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah - 1855

First Footsteps in East Africa - 1856

Falconry in the Valley of the Indus - 1857

Lake Region of Equatorial Africa - 1860

The City of the Saints - 1861

Wanderings in West Africa - 1863

Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains - 1863

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahom - 1864

Wit and Wisdom from West Africa: A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms - 1865

Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil - 1869

Letters From the Battlefields of Paraguay - 1870

Unexplored Syria - 1872

Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast - 1872

Ultima Thule: Or a Summer in Iceland - 1872

Etruscan Bologna - 1876

The Land of Midian - 1879

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi - 1880

To the Gold Coast for Gold - 1883

The Thousand Nights and a Night - 1885-1888

The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi - 1886