Bücher von Richard Francis Burton

The talented British linguist, ethnologist and explorer Richard F. Burton (1821-90) was one of the first Europeans to visit Mecca and survive to tell the tale. This lively three-volume account, published 1855-6, vividly describes his experiences in 1853, when he travelled there under the disguise of a pilgrim.

Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) spent two years as consul of Damascus, giving him unprecedented access to some of Syria's most remote areas and local culture, politics and religion. Published in 1872 in collaboration with Charles Drake (1846-74), this is a frank two-volume account of a country's developing identity.

In this two-volume work, published in 1860, British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) recounts his journey around the lakes of present-day Tanzania. In Volume 1 Burton begins in Zanzibar before landing up in Unyamwezi, 'the far-famed land over the moon'.

Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) was a British explorer famous for his nineteenth-century travels. This 1863 publication documents his mission to investigate West African mortality. In it he vividly recounts his journey to Africa and observations of life, work and death across the Gold Coast, Accra, Lagos and Fernando Po.

The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he first gained celebrity for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, conducted under the disguise of a pilgrim. He remains famous for his translation (with the British orientalist Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot) of The Kama Sutra (1883), a daring enterprise in the context of the Victorian society. First published in 1861, this book is an account of Burton's 1860 trip to Salt Lake City. It offers a geographical and ethnological study of Utah that focuses on the Mormon church. In the course of his research, Burton was able to meet the Mormon prophet Brigham Young, leader of the Latter-Day Saints and founder of Salt Lake City. Burton describes various Mormon customs, showing particular interest in polygamy, which he treats with critical distance and his characteristic sense of humour.

Written by the explorer and diplomat Sir Richard Burton (1821-90), this two-volume account of Zanzibar and of the 1857-9 expedition attempting to discover the source of the Nile was first published in 1872.

Written by explorers Richard Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron, this two-volume memoir describes the journey the two men took into West Africa in 1881 to assess the potential of local gold mines. First published in 1883, Volume 1 chronicles Burton's journey from Trieste to Sierra Leone.

First published in 1876, this two-volume work describes two expeditions in West Africa undertaken by explorer and diplomat Richard Burton during his consulship in Equatorial Guinea in the 1860s. The first volume records Burton's trip up the Gaboon River and includes extensive ethnographical and geographical information.

Sent on a diplomatic mission to convince the king of Dahomey (present-day Benin) to put a stop to the slave trade, British explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) recounts his experience in this two-volume work, published in 1864. Volume 1 covers his journey and introduction to the king.

Stationed as consul on the West African outpost of Fernando Po (modern-day Equatorial Guinea), the British adventurer Richard Burton (1821-1890) decided to explore the area, which he wrote about in this two-volume work, published in 1863. In Volume 2 Burton describes his ascent of Mount Cameroon.