Victorian explorer Richard Burton is best known for his translation of the Kama Sutra and his writings on Africa and West Asia - but this was his first book, published in 1851. After he was expelled from Oxford for unruly behaviour, Burton joined the British Indian Army and spent five happy years in Sindh before an attack of cholera sent him south to Nilgris. Ever obsessed with discovery, he renounced the comforts of a steamer to amble down the coast in a pattimar. His matchless drollery makes his adventures and misadventures a hilarious and transporting read. Includes an introduction by Burton expert Dane Kennedy.

Goa and the Blue Mountains or, Six Months of Sick Leave

Politics & Social Sciences

BURTON, RICHARD F.

Social Sciences

Penguin India

Classic, resulting from Burton's five year stay in Sindh, personal observations, language, local custom.

Sindh and the races that inhabit the Valley of the Indus (Oxford in Asia historical reprints)

Anthropology

Oxford University Press

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2 Vols in 1

History

Africa

Johnson Reprint Corp

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First Footsteps in East Africa: Or, an Exploration of Harar

Travel

Ams Pr Inc

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (English and Arabic Edition)

A poor tailor's lazy son finds a magic lamp and uses it to win the hand of a beautiful princess.

Children's Books

Delacorte Pr

One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer’s firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on Muslim beliefs, manners and morals; plus pleasures and perils of the desert. A wealth of geographic, ethnographic and linguistic data.

First Footsteps in East Africa; Or, an Exploration of Harar

Dover Publications

Great Victorian scholar-adventurer recounts long journey to British diplomatic post at Fernando Po, expeditions to African mainland. Invaluable descriptions of African tribal rituals concerning birth, marriage and death, and of tribal fetishism, ritual murder, cannibalism, exotic sexual practices, more. Preface. 1 illustration. 1 foldout map.

Wanderings in West Africa

"At last! Once more it is my fate to escape the prison-life of civilized Europe … Again I am to enjoy a glimpse of the 'glorious Desert'; to inhale the sweet pure breath of translucent skies that show the red stars burning upon the very edge and verge of the horizon …" — Richard R. Burton, The Gold-Mines of Midian. One of the great scholar/adventurers of the Victorian era, Sir Richard F. Burton was the author of numerous classic travel books documenting his adventures and exploits in the Near East and Africa. His celebrated Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah has long been one of the great books on Arabia. Burton considered this volume a sequel to that work. It is a fascinating chronicle of his 1877 expedition to locate gold and other valuable minerals in the Arabian Peninsula. In his younger days, wandering through Arabia with the Koran for company, Burton had stumbled across a "Gold Land," an area he suspected of being rich in gold and other minerals. At the time he had no interest in trying to extract its wealth. Twenty-five years later, however, when Egypt found itself in dire financial straits, Burton remembered his find. He informed the Khedive of Egypt about it and volunteered to try and relocate the gold field. The Khedive accepted his offer and promptly financed an expedition, headed by Burton, to undertake the search. In all his travel books, Burton reveals himself to have been a shrewd and sharp-eyed observer. This book is no exception. In addition to the exciting story of his successful quest for the gold-mines of Midian, his account is replete with detailed observations and recollections of native peoples, wildlife, plants, minerals, fish, shells, and more. The author's extraordinary erudition and contagious enthusiasm for the vast deserts of Arabia illuminate these pages, which will delight any armchair adventurer or admirer of Burton's work.

The Gold-Mines of Midian

Asia

Published in 1851, this is the first book written by the famed Victorian explorer Richard F. Burton. It is an account of his journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick leave from the British Indian army. Traveling through Bombay to the Portuguese colony of Goa, he went through Calicut and other cities on the Malabar coast, ending up in the Nilgiri mountains at the hill station of Ootacamund. The observant traveler, not the intrepid adventurer, is the narrator of the account, and its intended audience was the voracious Victorian consumer of travel literature.Coupled with a critical introduction by Dane Kennedy, this facsimile edition provides a revealing look at the people who inhabited a part of India that was generally off the beaten track in the nineteenth century. The Portuguese and Mestizo inhabitants of Goa, the Todas of Ootacamund, as well as the fellow Britons Burton meets on his journey are all subject to his penetrating scrutiny. Burton's clever, ascerbic, and unorthodox personality together with his irreverence for convention and his bemused disdain for humanity come through clearly in these pages, as does his extraordinary command of the languages and literatures of various peoples."What a glad moment it is, to be sure, when the sick and seedy, the tired and testy invalid from pestiferous Scinde or pestilential Guzerat, 'leaves all behind him' and scrambles over the sides of his Pattimar.""His what?""Ah! we forget. The gondola and barque are household words in your English ears, the budgerow is beginning to own an old familiar sound, but you are right—the 'Pattimar' requires a definition."

Goa, and the Blue Mountains; Or, Six Months of Sick Leave

University of California Press

Published in 1851, this is the first book written by the famed Victorian explorer Richard F. Burton. It is an account of his journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick leave from the British Indian army. Traveling through Bombay to the Portuguese colony of Goa, he went through Calicut and other cities on the Malabar coast, ending up in the Nilgiri mountains at the hill station of Ootacamund. The observant traveler, not the intrepid adventurer, is the narrator of the account, and its intended audience was the voracious Victorian consumer of travel literature. Coupled with a critical introduction by Dane Kennedy, this facsimile edition provides a revealing look at the people who inhabited a part of India that was generally off the beaten track in the nineteenth century. The Portuguese and Mestizo inhabitants of Goa, the Todas of Ootacamund, as well as the fellow Britons Burton meets on his journey are all subject to his penetrating scrutiny. Burton's clever, ascerbic, and unorthodox personality together with his irreverence for convention and his bemused disdain for humanity come through clearly in these pages, as does his extraordinary command of the languages and literatures of various peoples. "What a glad moment it is, to be sure, when the sick and seedy, the tired and testy invalid from pestiferous Scinde or pestilential Guzerat, 'leaves all behind him' and scrambles over the sides of his Pattimar." "His what?" "Ah! we forget. The gondola and barque are household words in your English ears, the budgerow is beginning to own an old familiar sound, but you are right―the 'Pattimar' requires a definition."

Kennedy, Dane

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Goa and the Blue Mountains or, Six Months of Sick Leave

Sindh and the races that inhabit the Valley of the Indus (Oxford in Asia historical reprints)

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2 Vols in 1

First Footsteps in East Africa: Or, an Exploration of Harar

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (English and Arabic Edition)

First Footsteps in East Africa; Or, an Exploration of Harar

Wanderings in West Africa

The Gold-Mines of Midian

Goa, and the Blue Mountains; Or, Six Months of Sick Leave

Goa, and the Blue Mountains; Or, Six Months of Sick Leave