Books with author Sir Richard F. BURTON

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. This Publication Contains 25 of Sir Richard Francis Burton's All Time Greatest Works. A Fully Interactive Table of Contents Has Been Added For Easy Navigation. Table of ContentsSir Richard Francis Burton BiographyEarly Life and Education (1821–41)Army Career (1842–53)First Explorations and Journey to Mecca (1851–53)Early Explorations (1854–55)Exploring the African Great Lakes (1856–60)Diplomatic Service and Scholarship (1861–90)Kama Shastra SocietyDeathWorks Included:VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRETwo Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the CongoTO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLDThe Land of Midian (Revisited).THE KASÎDAH OF HÂJÎ ABDÛ EL-YEZDÎThe Carmina of Caius Valerius CatullusPERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO AL-MADINAH & MECCAH, VOLUME I.PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO AL-MADINAH & MECCAH, VOLUME II.FIRST FOOTSTEPS IN EAST AFRICA; OR, AN EXPLORATION OF HARAR.The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, IThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, IIThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, IIIThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, IVThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, VThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, VIThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, VIIThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, VIIIThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, IXThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, XThe Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, IThe Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, IIThe Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, IIIThe Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, IVThe Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, VThe Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, VI

Translated from the original Sanskrit by the noted Victorian Orientalist, Sir Richard Burton, these ancient Indian folk tales influenced such later works as 1001 Arabian Nights and Boccaccio's Decameron. As revealing today as they were in their own time, these stories will entertain and delight modern readers while illuminating the life and customs of classical India. This reprint from the 1893 limited edition contains 34 black-and‑white illustrations, including the frontispiece designed especially for that edition.

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a preeminent British explorer of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. His famed disguised pilgrimage to Mecca in 1853 made his name known. Burton helped demystify this exotic Eastern world to the West. In "Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah", we are gifted with his personal account of his Haj. Full of insightful anthropological observations, Burton describes his encounters with Arab cultures and customs. This exciting tale revolves around his disguising as an Afghan doctor in order to not be noticed in his religious pilgrimage. Burton was more than an explorer, though; he was a translator, soldier, cartographer, and spy. His fascinating character comes through brilliantly in this travel account as we discover the East through the eyes of an outsider. Burton's "Narrative" is as much an adventure story as it is a study in cultural anthropology—a true classic of travel writing that helped define the genre.

The story turns chiefly on a great king named Vikram, the King Arthur of the East, who in pursuance of his promise to a Jogi or Magician, brings to him the Baital (Vampire), who is hanging on a tree. The difficulties King Vikram and his son have in bringing the Vampire into the presence of the Jogi are truly laughable; and on this thread is strung a series of Hindu fairy stories, which contain much interesting information on Indian customs and manners. It also alludes to that state, which induces Hindu devotees to allow themselves to be buried alive, and to appear dead for weeks or months, and then to return to life again; a curious state of mesmeric catalepsy, into which they work themselves by concentrating the mind and abstaining from food - a specimen of which I have given a practical illustration in the Life of Sir Richard Burton.

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.

For many days after that, the Sultan mourned of his wife. Then, in his anger, he decided that all women of the world are disloyal. To avenge himself, he started a cruel practice. Everyday he wed a new girl and put her to death the next morning. Each time the Wazir was appointed for this task and he had to obey the Sultan's order half-heartedly. All the citizens of the Sultan's kingdom were angry and grieved with this.One day, the Wazir's elder daughter Sheherazade said, "Father, the Sultan's cruel ritual is not liked by anyone. I think I can put an end to it.""Dear, that would be wonderful! All of the women and even the people of the city will be ever grateful to you. But how will you do this?" asked the Wazir."By marrying the Sultan." Sheherazade declared. The Wazir was shocked. Then tears welled up in his eyes. "Dear daughter, you know what fate awaits you the morning after the wedding. I can't kill my daughter with my own hands."But Sheherazade persisted and the Wazir gave in though with a heavy heart. The Wazir went to the Sultan and told him that his daughter wished to be his wife. The Sultan was surprised but agreed to the marriage because he knew Sheherazade was a very beautiful girl.

They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Sinbad the Sailor. Aladdin. These and the other Middle Eastern stories collected in Arabian Nights are delightful, fascinating, and fun for fans and first-time readers alike. This beautiful, leather-bound edition collects the classic tales of Arabian Nights in a new, redesigned format.

How is this book unique?Font adjustments & biography includedUnabridged (100% Original content)Formatted for e-readerIllustratedAbout The Arabian Nights By Richard BurtonThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the “Arabian Nights”) – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). It stood as the only complete translation of the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) of the "Arabian Nights" until the Malcolm C. and Ursula Lyons translation in 2008.

Sir Richard Burton's Kasidah, written in 1880 after his return from Mecca, has been called one of the greatest poems of the Earth, and the essence of the explorer's life and work. In exquisite verse and extensive author's notes, Burton adapts the style, techniques and ideas of the classical Sufi masters such as Hafiz and Omar Khayyam, exploring the limitation of man's undeveloped reason, egoism and self-made religions in fulfilling real human destiny. Idries Shah devotes almost an entire chapter of The Sufis to The Kasidah, calling it, "One of the most interesting productions of Western Sufic literature... Burton provided a bridge whereby the thinking Westerner could accept essential Sufi concepts." A beautiful new edition with gold embossed cover.

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