Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
Autor de The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
Sobre El Autor
Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, translator, writer, soldier, spy, fencer, and diplomat. He is most famous for his translations of One Thousand and One Sights and the Kama Sutra and for having been the first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa. He once traveled to Mecca in disguise mostrar más and spoke nearly thirty languages. He died in 1890. mostrar menos
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Obras de Richard Francis Burton
The Illustrated Kama Sutra : Ananga-Ranga and Perfumed Garden - The Classic Eastern Love Texts (1987) 160 copias
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) (1932) — Traductor — 133 copias
Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) 132 copias
The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar… (1932) 105 copias
The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, all 16 volumes, with active table of contents (1885) 104 copias
The City of the Saints: Among the Mormons and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (1862) 89 copias
A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments now intituled The book of the thousand nights and… (1900) 42 copias
The Arabian Nights Complete and Unabridged (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2010) 34 copias
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 1 (Volume 1) (1885) 29 copias
One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection (Delphi Classics) (Series Six Book 12) (2015) 26 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1934) 19 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2001) 19 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 18 copias
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 17 (Volume 17) (1885) 18 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2008) 16 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2001) 16 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1886) 16 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2003) 15 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 15 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2008) 14 copias
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 10 (Volume 10) (2008) 14 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 14 copias
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 14 (Volume 14) (1950) 14 copias
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 16 (Volume 16) (1888) 13 copias
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 13 copias
The Arabian Nights: The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (The great tales) [abridged] [Naxos Audiobook] (1995) 11 copias
Rare The Arabian Nights - Richard Burton Illustrated Leather Bound Hardback 1st Print (1777) 7 copias
Wit and Wisdom from West Africa: A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms (1969) 5 copias
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nafzawi: Richard Francis Burton (Classics, Literature) [Annotated] (2021) 4 copias
The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal, Illustrated Translation of the Arabian Nights… (2014) 4 copias
The Nile Basin 4 copias
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night a Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Made… (1962) 4 copias
The book of the thousand nights and a night: a plain and literal translation of the arabian nights entertainments, Vol.… (2012) 3 copias
The Book of The Thousand Nights & A Night A Plain & Literal Translation of the Arabian NightsÕ Entertainments Made &… (1934) — Traductor — 3 copias
Supplemental Nights Volume 3 3 copias
The Vice: Containing Sir Richard Burton's Sotadic Zone and Extracts from Dr. Jacobus' Untrodden Fields of Anthropology… (1967) 3 copias
Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights… (2011) 2 copias
The Richard Burton Poetry Collection 2 copias
Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introductory Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men… (1994) 2 copias
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night VOLUME V: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 2 copias
Supplemental nights : to the book of the thousand and one nights with notes, anthroplogical and explanatory, Vol. 7 (2011) 2 copias
Unexplored Syria 2 Volume Set: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern… (2012) 2 copias
Ultima Thule; or, a Summer in Iceland. With historical introduction, maps, and illustrations. 2 copias
Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Seven volumes [Vol. 2 missing] 1 copia
Bilješke o Istri 1 copia
The Arabian nights , vol II 1 copia
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night. VOLUME II: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 1 copia
Burton's Reisen Nach Medina Und Mekka Und in Das Somaliland Nach Härrär in Ost-Afrika (German Edition) (2012) 1 copia
The book of the thousand nights and a night A plain and literal translation of The arabian nights entertainments Volume… (2015) 1 copia
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night VOLUME IV: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 1 copia
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night VOLUME III: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 1 copia
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night. VOLUME I: 1885 (London "Burton Club" edition), illustrated (2017) 1 copia
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night -- Volumes Three and Four: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian… (2020) 1 copia
Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights… (2011) 1 copia
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Burton's Arabian Nights) 10 Volumes Complete Set (1885) 1 copia
Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines. Also, Canoeing down… (2002) 1 copia
Viagens aos planaltos do Brasil 1 copia
The Sotadic Zone 1 copia
Arabian Nights (Volume 10) 1 copia
Arabian Nights (Volume 13) 1 copia
The Land of Midian 1 copia
Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and… (2012) 1 copia
The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions : With Illustrations, and Intineraries of the Principal… (2018) 1 copia
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in Asia and Africa (2002) 1 copia
A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments now entituled The Book of the Thousand… (2010) 1 copia
Mystery of the Sacred Shroud 1 copia
THE COMPLETE ARABIAN NIGHTS (ILLUSTRATED): THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT (2016) 1 copia
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Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays (1989) — Contribuidor — 64 copias
Arabian Nights: Four Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Pegasus Library) (1750) — Editor, algunas ediciones — 43 copias
Etiquetado
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- Nombre canónico
- Burton, Richard Francis
- Otros nombres
- El-Yezdi, Haji Abdu (pseudonym)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1821-03-19
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1890-10-20
- Lugar de sepultura
- St Mary Magdalen Church, Mortlake, London, England, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Torquay, Devon, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Trieste, Austria-Hungary
- Causa de fallecimiento
- heart attack
- Lugares de residencia
- Tours, France
Trieste, Austria-Hungary
Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UK - Educación
- University of Oxford (Trinity College)
- Ocupaciones
- explorer
translator
geographer
writer
soldier
orientalist (mostrar todos 7)
diplomat - Relaciones
- Burton, Isabel (wife)
Stisted, Georgiana M. (niece) - Organizaciones
- East India Company
Anthropological Society of London - Premios y honores
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (1908)
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (1886)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society - Biografía breve
- Sir Richard Francis Burton 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in 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.
Burton's best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after early translations of Antoine Galland's French version); the publication of the Kama Sutra in English; a translation of The Perfumed Garden, the Arab Kama Sutra; and a journey with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.
His works and letters extensively criticised colonial policies of the British Empire, even to the detriment of his career. Although he aborted his university studies, he became a prolific and erudite author and wrote numerous books and scholarly articles about subjects including human behaviour, travel, falconry, fencing, sexual practices and ethnography. A characteristic feature of his books is the copious footnotes and appendices containing remarkable observations and information. William Henry Wilkins wrote: "So far as I can gather from all I have learned, the chief value of Burton’s version of The Scented Garden lay not so much in his translation of the text, though that of course was admirably done, as in the copious notes and explanations which he had gathered together for the purpose of annotating the book. He had made this subject a study of years. For the notes of the book alone he had been collecting material for thirty years, though his actual translation of it only took him eighteen months."
Burton was a captain in the army of the East India Company, serving in India, and later briefly in the Crimean War. Following this, he was engaged by the Royal Geographical Society to explore the east coast of Africa, where he led an expedition guided by locals and was the first European known to have seen Lake Tanganyika. In later life, he served as British consul in Fernando Pó (now Bioko, Equatorial Guinea), Santos in Brazil, Damascus (Ottoman Syria) and finally in Trieste. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was awarded a knighthood in 1886.
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