The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton
Author | : Lady Isabel Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Explorers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lady Isabel Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Explorers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fawn McKay Brodie |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393301663 |
"Brilliant. . . . [Brodie's] scholarship is wide and searching, and her understanding of Burton and his wife both deep and wide. She writes with clarity and zest. The result is a first class biography of an exceptional man."--J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book Review
Author | : Byron Farwell |
Publisher | : Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780140120684 |
Author | : Byron Farwell |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Dane Kennedy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2007-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 067426505X |
Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavors. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Burton traveled so widely, wrote so prolifically, and contributed so forcefully to his generation's most contentious debates that heprovides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of theVictorians. One of the great challenges confronting the British in the nineteenth century was to make sense of the multiplicity of peoples and cultures they encountered in their imperial march around the globe. Burton played an important role in this mission. Drawing on his wide-ranging experiences in other lands and intense curiosity about their inhabitants, he conducted an intellectually ambitious, highly provocative inquiry into racial, religious, and sexual differences that exposed his own society's norms to scrutiny. Dane Kennedy offers a fresh and compelling examination of Burton and his contribution to the widening world of the Victorians. He advances the view that the Victorians' efforts to attach meaning to the differences they observed among other peoples had a profound influence on their own sense of self, destabilizing identities and reshaping consciousness. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, The Highly Civilized Man is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.
Author | : Thomas Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James L. Newman |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1597975966 |
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. "
Author | : Ilija Trojanow |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2009-03-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061351938 |
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.
Author | : Melvyn Bragg |
Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1444758462 |
Richard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile, playing great Antony to Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra. From the West End to Hollywood, from Camelot to Shakespeare, he drank, dazzled and despaired, playing out his life on the public stage. But there was another, quieter, off-stage Richard Burton, a face hidden from the multitude. Melvyn Bragg, allowed free access to the never-before-revealed Burton private notebooks, and with the cooperation of friends who have never spoken about him before, has brought together the private and public sides for the first time. Rich is the complete Richard Burton: a revelation.
Author | : Thomas Wright |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465550135 |