Sir Richard Francis Burton Books
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 9
Sir Richard Francis BurtonThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is an English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (t..
The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1
Sir Richard Francis BurtonThe Land of Midian is a travel literature written in 2 volumes by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, and soldier. Author's Preface:The plain unva..
To The Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative. Vol. II
Sir Richard Francis BurtonTo The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II is a personal narrative written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron. Author's Preface:The sad grey life of ..
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
Sir Richard Francis BurtonThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night is a multi volume collection of Arabic fairy and folk tales written by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a British explorer, geographer, translato..
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
Sir Richard Francis BurtonA tour through the domains of Uncle Samuel without visiting the wide regions of the Far West would be, to use a novel simile, like seeing Hamlet with the part of Prince of Denmark, by desire, omitted...
The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1
Sir Richard Francis BurtonI had intended this record of personal adventure to appear immediately after my return to Europe, in May 1859. The impaired health, the depression of spirits, and worse still the annoyance of official..
The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 2
Sir Richard Francis BurtonThe moisture-bearing wind in this part of Africa is the fixed south-east trade, deflected, as in the great valley of the Mississippi and in the island of Ceylon, into a periodical south-west monsoon. ..
Wanderings in Three Continents
Sir Richard Francis BurtonBurton was a many-sided man. The following volume of posthumous essays reveals him in the aspect in which he was best known to the world—as a traveller and explorer. It will add comparatively little ..