#sir richard burton

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of civilisation, man feels once more happy.

- Sir Richard Francis Burton, explorer and author

[weirdlookindog]

Albert Letchford - Frontispiece for Sir Richard Francis Burton's 'Vikram and the Vampire, or, Tales of Hindu Devilry', 1893.

[moratoirenoir]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"BEHOLD THE SUN, WAS SUDDENLY HIDDEN FROM ME..."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on the legendary bird of prey from Arab/Persian mythology, the Roc, watercolors by the late, great Eric Carle (1929-2021), from the children's book "Dragons Dragons and Other Creatures that Never Were" (1988).

"Behold the sun, was suddenly hidden from me, and the air became dull and dark. Methought a cloud had cover the sun. . .

I saw that the cloud was none other than an enormous bird of gigantic girth and inordinately wide of wing. . .

a huge bird, called the Roc, which feedeth it's young on elephants."

-- Sir RICHARD BURTON (1821-1890)

Source: www.fairyroom.ru/?p=56315&fbclid.

[mrdirtybear]

Soldier, explorer and anthropologist Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) a/k/a Ruffian Dick. I don't know how to view this man, he started out as the product of a prim Victorian culture, in which at home taboo mostly trumped sexual obsession, but men did not stop obsessing about sex. He found himself best when abroad where he travelled as a soldier and explorer, and he studied many cultures across the world. There he closely observed, and wrote down in detail, the raw hedonism and piety of the world around him that England wanted to rule over by ignoring how it worked. However much he learned about the world outside England, Victorian society made sure the core of it would not be passed on. When he died his wife burned most of his private papers. Get the proper story of him here.

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[ratticus-the-emperor]

arabian nights is lovely but sometimes i feel the need to boil sir richard burton for the use of ye olde englishe

[vervedoff]

The Devil Drives ~ Fawn M. Brodie

[luxsit]

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1872-75)

Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)

[deadpresidents]

What are you currently reading?

I've been having trouble getting into just one book lately, so I've currently been reading parts of several books, hoping one of them hooks me. Guess what? That's literally never worked any time I've ever tried it, and yet, I still do it constantly. It always ends up taking me longer to read everything than if I just read the books one after the other.

Anyway, this is what I'm in the middle of right now, all of which are too interesting to keep me from focusing on just one at a time:

•Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk (BOOK | KINDLE) by Amy Greenberg •The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers (BOOK | KINDLE) by Tom Standage •King Faisal of Saudi Arabia: Personality, Faith and Times (BOOK | KINDLE) by Alexei Vassiliev

I'm also still on the Richard Francis Burton kick that I mentioned last year, so I've been reading these too: •Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West by Edward Rice •The City of the Saints: Among the Mormons and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (BOOK/PUBLIC DOMAIN LINK) by Sir Richard Francis Burton

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 353 & 354 & 355

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments (3-volume set)

Translated and Annotated by Richard F. Burton / illustrated by Valenti Angelo

The Heritage Press 1962

This three-volume set from The Heritage Press is a reprint of a six-volume set published by the Limited Editions Club in 1934, which was based on an edition of Burton’s complete translation published in 1885. While this is a handsome set and the 1,001 simple line drawings by Valenti Angelo have a certain kind of naive charm, I have to admit that I find Burton’s translation an incredibly clunky reading experience, although his notes are extensive and occasionally quite interesting.

[moratoirenoir]

[eyeoftheheart]

“Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?”

~ Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law”

[sublimegentlemanalpaca]

Thought, Mathew Rhys (who I admittedly only know as Belos in The Owl House) would be really good as either Burton or Dee in an animated adaptation of CotIG. Dee more so…evil. Possibly. Probably other possibilities, but that’s the ones coming to mind. Such a good voice.

make of that what you will

[random-brushstrokes]

Albert Letchford - Sir Richard Burton's Study (1889)