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	Richard Francis Burton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Richard Francis Burton (March 19, 1821 – October 19, 1890) was a British consul, explorer, translator, writer and Orientalist known for his often-unprecedented exploits of travel and exploration as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.
		Burton's best-known achievements include travelling alone and in disguise to Mecca, translating The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, journeying with John Hanning Speke to discover the Great Lakes of Africa and the sources of the Nile and visiting Brigham Young in Salt Lake City, Utah.
		Burton was born at Barham House in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_Richard_Burton (1946 words)

	SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON - LoveToKnow Article on SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burtons anthropological notes, embracing a wide field of pornography, apart from questions of taste, abound in valuable observations based upon long study of the manners and the writings of the Arabs.
		Burton had a fellow-feeling for the poet adventurer, and his translation is an extraordinarily happy reproduction of its original.
		In 1906 appeared the Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright of Olney, in two volumes, an industrious and rather critical work, interesting in particular for the doubts it casts on Burtons originality as an Arabic translator, and emphasizing his indebtedness to Paynes translation (i881) of the Arabian Nights.
	13.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BURTON_SIR_RICHARD_FRANCIS.htm (1816 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
		Burton was raised in France and Italy and his talent for languages meant that he was fluent in four languages and two dialects before he was twenty: he would eventually learn 25 languages and another 15 dialects.
		Burton disagreed with him, the two became badly estranged and, in September 1864, a debate between the two ended in tragedy when Speke was killed while hunting.
		Burton's next move was to the Foreign Office, which appointed him consul in Fernando Po, a Spanish island off the coast of West Africa.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/burton_sir_richard_francis.shtml (376 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Francis Burton was born near Elstree, Hertfordshire, on March 19, 1821, the son of an army colonel.
		Burton and his brother were first wild children -- at ten years of age, Burton stole his father's rifle and shot out stained-glass church windows -- and, later, wilder adolescents.
		Burton later attended Oxford University, where he was known as "Ruffian Dick" for his long moustaches and penchant for challenging students to duels; he was eventually expelled for attending horse races.
	www.rimbaud.freeserve.co.uk /burton3.htm (1103 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Burton, Sir Richard F.
		Although Sir Richard F. Burton bore the stamp of the Victorian era in which he lived, in his outlook on sexuality there was little about him that seems "Victorian" in the sexually restrictive sense of that term.
		Burton was born in Torquay, England on March 19, 1821, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Netterville Burton.
		Richard Burton was expelled from Oxford University in 1842.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/burton_rf.html (882 words)

	Channel 4 Television - to the ENDS of the EARTH
		In 1856, Richard Francis Burton was commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society to lead an expedition to solve the problem once and for all.
		Burton and Speke spent six months in Zanzibar port, the Arab flavour of which was decidedly to the eclectic taste of Burton, who spent his time learning Swahili and measuring the size of the male inhabitants' penises, an anthropological pursuit calculated to unsettle the prudish Speke.
		Here, Burton heard that somewhere to the west lay a 'slug-like lake' of enormous size that he guessed might be the legendary tears of Isis, said by the ancient Egyptians to be the source of the Nile.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/E/ends/nile3.html (1020 words)

	Richard Burton - Actor
		Richard Burton was a Welsh miner's son who never forgot his roots, spoke Welsh as his mother tongue,
		Richard Burton was a regal, commanding presence of the 60's cinema.
		When Burton came with the play to Broadway in 1952, he registered solidly with American producers, and was chosen to play the male lead in My Cousin Rachel (1952), a Daphne du Maurier mystery.
	www.walesonline.com /trib_burton.php (629 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: Sir Richard Francis Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burton wrote the poem The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî and translated The Arabian Nights (Alf Laylah wa Laylah, the Thousand Nights and a Night) with copious annotations; both of these works are included in Section 2 of the A:.
		Burton also wrote A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Mecca and Al-Madina, which is the account of his participation in the Hajj in 1853, impersonating an Indian Pathan.
		Burton's frankness about sexuality was the most likely reason that his widow, in an effort to "preserve his reputation," burned his memoirs after his death.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/burton.htm (452 words)

	Sir Richard F. Burton
		Burton was ever the iconoclast, always on the run, propelling his wander-lust and urge for exploration.
		Burton rationalizes this by saying, "Amongst the wiser ancients sinning contra naturam was not marrying and begetting children." This is indeed the greatest sin, but there are others.
		Burton clearly differentiated between "barbarians" and "savages", as it was understood by the experts at the time.
	www.jrbooksonline.com /burton.htm (1298 words)

	Sir Richard Burton Obibuary
		The success of this expedition was undoubtedly due to Burton, whose extraordinary linguistic faculty and knowledge of Oriental character enabled him to command success where others might have failed, and to collect a mass of information from the far-travelled Arabs who he met with during his journeys.
		If Burton's theories as to the Nile sources have not been verified by subsequent explorations, this is due not so much to any lack of acumen on his part as to the paucity of facts from which his conclusions had to be drawn.
		Burton was a voluminous writer--too voluminous in face--and a mere enumeration of the books written and published by him would fill a column of one of our pages.
	www.wollamshram.ca /1001/Athenaeum/at3287.htm (788 words)

	The Life Story of Sir. Burton
		Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890), British explorer, linguist, and student of Asian cultures, one of the most famous mid-19th century European explorers of Africa.
		Burton was born in Torquay, England, to an English army officer and his wealthy wife, the latter rumored to be descended from the French Bourbon kings.
		Burton is believed to have been the first European to enter the ancient walled city and survive.
	www.empereur.com /burton.html (900 words)

	Books : Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first European adventurer to search for the source of the Nile; to enter, disguised, the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina; and to travel through remote stretches of India, the Near East, and Africa.
		From his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (the discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra and his seventeen-volume translation of Arabian Nights), Burton was an engrossing, larger-than-life Victorian figure, and Rice's splendid biography lays open a portrayal as dramatic, complicated, and compelling as the man himself.
		Richard Burton was a man ahead of his own Victorian Era and one driven by his unmatched curiosity and desire to blaze new intellectual trails.
	www.ajeno.com /ItemId/030681028X (608 words)

	Burton, Sir Richard Francis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He went with Speke to uncharted E central Africa to discover the source of the Nile; he found Lake Tanganyika (1858) but abandoned the attempt to reach Lake Nyasa.
		After a visit to the United States, Burton published an account of the Mormon settlement at Utah in his City of the Saints (1861).
		While consul (1861–65) at Fernando Po (now Bioko), off W Africa, he explored the Bight of Biafra and conducted a mission to Dahomey, Benin, and the Gold Coast.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/BurtonSrR.html (320 words)

	Amazon.com: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Burton's father, Joseph Netterville Burton, was a gentleman in an age when being a gentleman was a proper calling.
		Burton was dashing, an expert swordsman and horseman, and a prolific writer, poet and translator who rank as one of the best of his time.
		Burton is known to most as one of the scholars who brought 'The Arabian Nights' to the West...he heard a lot of the tales through the Persian oral tradition; memorized them in their original language, and sat around many a camp fire in the desert, re-telling these wonderful stories to anyone who would listen.
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	Additional Reading (from Sir Richard Burton) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A scholar-explorer with an inborn love of adventure, Richard Burton was the first European to stand on the shore of Africa's Lake Tanganyika and to penetrate forbidden Muslim cities unharmed.
		"Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1853"
		Sir Isaac Newton law of gravity helped prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-978?tocId=978 (775 words)

	EuropaWorld 16/2/2001 Sir Richard Francis Burton
		Richard Francis Burton was born in England in 1821, the son of an army colonel.
		Accompanying his parents on their frequent travels abroad, the young Richard gained both a taste for travel and a linguistic ability that stayed with him for the rest of his life.
		Sir Richard died in Trieste on October 20, 1890.
	www.europaworld.org /Issue22/sirrichardfrancisburton16201.htm (766 words)

	Channel 4 Television - to the ENDS of the EARTH
		The son of a colonel, Burton was born in Torquay and had an irregular education - in France and Italy and at Oxford, from which he was expelled.
		Burton was a mass of contradictions: a libertine, an intensely fastidious scholar; an irascible and intolerant Indian Army officer, a brilliant swordsman, a man who loved to disguise himself in Eastern clothes.
		She lobbied hard for him to be buried in Westminster Abbey, but such was Burton's reputation as a controversialist and libertine that the Church of England would not assent to her request.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/E/ends/nile4.html (1874 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard and Edward may have had illegitimate children in India but this is something I have not really investigated.
		The television series "The Sentinel" refers to the writings of Burton regarding the legend of the Sentinel, a tribal watchman whose five senses were reputed to be heightened and who served as the protector of his village.
		Burton was indeed a character in a 1970s science fiction series written by Phillip Jose Farmer.
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	Sir Richard Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Richard Burton, English adventurer-writer (shown here modeling the garb he wore to enter the sanctum of Mecca) provided wouldbe travelers to the West with a comprehensive report of his Western tour in 1860.
		In his role as a man of letters, Sir Richard wrote books and articles on almost every conceivable subject, from falconry to military tactics to the folkways of African tribes.
		Important to the history of the Pony Express are Burton's detailed accounts of the stations that he visited along his route.
	www.xphomestation.com /rburton.html (320 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton
		Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, linguist, scholar, soldier, anthropologist, and a prolific and gifted writer.
		Burton (who excelled at reconnaissance, mapping, and languages) used his military commissions and scientific funding to map new trade routes, identify and catalogue valuable natural resources, and to analyze the political, religious, and economic systems in foreign countries.
		Burton is probably most famous for discovering the source of the Nile River in Africa with his partner, John Hanning Speke, in 1858.
	www.9types.com /movieboard/messages/13323.html (592 words)

	The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright
		Richard’s hair gradually turned from its fiery and obtrusive red to jet fl, but the violent temper of which the former colour is supposed to be indicative, and of which he had already many times given proofs, signalised him to the end of life.
		Burton had not long studied these and other persons before coming to the conclusion that the Eastern mind is always in extremes, that it ignores what is meant by the “golden mean,” and that it delights to range in flights limited only by the ne plus ultra of Nature herself.
		Richard Burton, handsome, tall and broad-shouldered, was oftener outside the carriage than in it, as the noise made by his two small nieces rendered pedestrian exercise, even in the snow, an agreeable and almost necessary variety.” Now and then he gave them bits of snow to taste, which they hoped might be sugar.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /b/burton/richard/b97zw/b97zw.html (19194 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Richard Frances Burton was born on March 19, 1521.
		Burton and his crew were looking for the source White Nile.
		Burton disagreed then their friend ship was over.
	home.centurytel.net /sha/sirburton.html (136 words)

	Sir Richard Burton
		Burton's passion for adventure might be found in his Pisces/Aries stellium – his sun is on the cusp, after all – with the Pisces accounting for his interest in Eastern esoterica and mysticism.
		Burton was said to have devised a system for learning language quickly and he obviously had a great ear.
		Burton's sidereal / Vedic chart has two primary configurations which indicate his adventurism, passion for the exotic / erotic, and his ability with languages.
	www.astrodatabank.com /NM/FeedbackPRT.asp?ChartID=2123 (2976 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Richard Francis Burton (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Richard Francis Burton, Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors
		Sir Richard Francis Burton 1821–90, English explorer, writer, and linguist.
		He joined (1842) the service of the East India Company and, while stationed in India, acquired a thorough knowledge of the Persian, Afghan, Hindustani, and Arabic languages.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BurtonSrR.html (404 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton and General Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
		Burton and Gordon were two of the most fascinating men of the Victorian age, and Lady Burton was herself remarkable.
		Burton saw this from the first, and later Gordon came to see that his view was the right one.
		Burton was incredulous at the news of Gordon's death, and refused for a long time to believe it, insisting that he had escaped.
	www.miskatonic.org /history/burton-gordon.html (8932 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
		Sir Richard Francis Burton (March 19, 1821 - Oct. 20, 1890) was an English explorer, linguist, author, and soldier.
		In 1855, Burton and three companions (including John Hanning Speke and two other officers of the British East India Company) began an unsuccessful trip in search of the source of the White Nile; one member of the expedition was killed in an attack by Africans, and Speke and Burton were injured.
		Burton is well-known for his translation of the 16 volumes of "The Tales of the Arabian Nights" and other Eastern books.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/b/burton.shtml (341 words)

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