Richard Francis Burton
| Capt. Richard Francis Burton FRGS, MRAS | |||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1821 | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1890 | ||||||||||||||||
| Residence |
Santos, Brazil; Damascus c/o Foreign Office; Fernando Po [1862] 14 Montagu Place, Montagu Square W and Fernando Po [1863] 36 Manchester Street, Manchester Square, W. and Santos, Brazil [1867] Damascus [A6:1] Damascus c/o Foreign Office [1869] HM Consul, Damascus; Howletts Hotel, 36 Manchester St., W [1872] HM Consul, Trieste; Howlett's Hotel, 36 Manchester Street, W [1875] | ||||||||||||||||
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diplomacy academic explorer | ||||||||||||||||
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Contents
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Office Notes
ASL Council 1863 [1st and new July] Vice President
ASL Council 1864 Vice President
ASL Council 1865 Vice President
ASL Council 1866 Vice President
ASL Council 1867 President
ASL Council 1869 Vice President (ex president)
ESL Council 1869-70 Member
AI Council 1872 Member
AI Council 1873 Member
LAS Council 1873 Vice President
LAS Council 1874 Vice President
LAS Council 1875 Vice President
House Notes
1885 list gives 1863
1863 to Fernando Po
4th list 1864.03.15 gives him as Burton, Captain Richard Fenwick
1865 to Santos in Brazil
1868 to Damascus
1871 to Trieste
Notes From Elsewhere
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was an English geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages.[1]
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1861
Publications
External Publications
Goa and the Blue Mountains (1851)
Scinde or the Unhappy Valley (1851)
Sindh and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus (1851)
Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (1852)
A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise (1853)
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah 3 Vols. (1855–6). See also PDF facsimile
First Footsteps in East Africa (1856). See also PDF Facsimile .
The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa (1859)
The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860)
The City of the Saints, Among the Mormons and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (1861)
Wanderings in West Africa (1863)
Abeokuta and the Cameroon Mountains (1863)
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahomé (1864)
The Nile Basin (1864) With James McQueen.
Wit and Wisdom From West Africa (1865)
Stone Talk (1865)
The Guide-book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina (1865).
Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil (1869)
Letters From the Battlefields of Paraguay (1870)
Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry (1870). See also PDF Facsimile.
Unexplored Syria (1872)
Zanzibar (1872)
Ultima Thule (1872)
The Lands of Cazembe. Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798 (1873). Edited and translated by Burton.
The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse, in A.D. 1547–1555, Among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil. Translated by Albert Tootal and annotated by Richard F. Burton.
A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry (1876)
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo (1876) See also PDF Facsimile.
Etruscan Bologna (1876)
Sind Revisited (1877)
The Gold Mines of Midian (1878)
The Land of Midian (revisited) (1879)
Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads) (two volumes 1880)
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (1880). See also PDF Facsimile.
A Glance at the Passion-Play (1881).
To the Gold Coast for Gold 2 Vols. (1883). See also PDF Facsimile.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (1883) (with F. F. Arbuthnot).
Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads (1883)
Camoens. The Lyricks 2 Vols (1884)
The Book of the Sword (1884)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night[48] (ten volumes 1885)
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi (1886)
The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night[49] (six volumes 1886 – 1888)
The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam (1898)
The Sentiment of the Sword: A Country-House Dialogue (1911)
House Publications
ESL
The account of a visit to the Fans
On the ethnology of Dahome
Ethnological notes on M. du Chaillu's explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa
ASL
On the Dahome nov 1864
On Skulls from Annabom, in the West African Seas.
LAS
Notes on the kitchen-middens of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the footprints of St Thomas alias Zome
Notes on the Castllieri or prehistoric ruins of the Istrian Peninsula
AI
On Anthropological Collections from the Holy Land. 2 papers 1872
Related Material Details
RAI Material
MS 430 Miscellaneous papers withdrawn from the library of Sir Richard Burton. 1863-89
Portraits of him in Photo collection
Other Material
His library is in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Drawing in Anthropological Society Album at PRM
