To the Holy Shrines
To the Holy Shrines

Author: Richard Burton

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 0141025387

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'Great Journeys' allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries and also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. It describes great civilisations, walls of ice, violent jungles, deserts and mountains and multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. This title is a classic in 19th century exploration of Arabian culture.

Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa
Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa

Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton

Publisher: Huntington Library Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780873282093

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FROM REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION: "Burton's own narratives...are classics of travel. Best known is the account of his journey to Medina and Mecca, closed to non-Muslims.... As Hayman observes, [Burton] reveals his volatile temper as well as his amazing capacity to assimilate information which must have been retained in his head, as no writing was permitted."--"History Today "Burton's lectures...give the full flavor of both his fierce temperament and his fiercer curiosity."--"Los Angeles Times

The Collector of Worlds
The Collector of Worlds

Author: Ilija Trojanow

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-24

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 0061351938

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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.

Burton
Burton

Author: Byron Farwell

Publisher: Viking Adult

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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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.