Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
Autor/a de The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
Sobre l'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 mostra'n més and spoke nearly thirty languages. He died in 1890. mostra'n menys
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Obres de Richard Francis Burton
Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) 414 exemplars
The Illustrated Kama Sutra : Ananga-Ranga and Perfumed Garden - The Classic Eastern Love Texts (1987) 158 exemplars
The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, all 16 volumes, with active table of contents (1885) 103 exemplars
The City of the Saints: Among the Mormons and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (1862) 87 exemplars
A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments now intituled The book of the thousand nights and… (1900) 42 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 1 (Volume 1) (1885) 29 exemplars
One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection (Delphi Classics) (Series Six Book 12) (2015) 26 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2001) 19 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1934) 19 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 17 (Volume 17) (1885) 18 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 18 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1886) 16 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2008) 16 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2001) 16 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 15 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2003) 15 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 14 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 14 (Volume 14) (1950) 14 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2008) 14 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 10 (Volume 10) (2008) 14 exemplars
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 13 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 16 (Volume 16) (1888) 13 exemplars
The Arabian Nights: The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (The great tales) [abridged] [Naxos Audiobook] (1995) 12 exemplars
Rare The Arabian Nights - Richard Burton Illustrated Leather Bound Hardback 1st Print (1777) 7 exemplars
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT: THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT - VOLS. I - 6 IN THREE BOOKS. (VOL. I -… (1934) 7 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night (10 Volumes) plus Supplemental Nights (7 Volumes) 17 Volumes Complete (1978) 7 exemplars
Tales from the Arabian nights 6 exemplars
The Arabian Nights (Great Books For Children) 6 exemplars
Arabian Nights 6 exemplars
Wit and Wisdom from West Africa: A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms (1969) 5 exemplars
The book of the thousand and one nights 5 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night a Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Made… (1962) 4 exemplars
Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night 4 exemplars
The Nile Basin 4 exemplars
The Nile basin: Part I, showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy's western lake reservoir (2011) 3 exemplars
The Book of The Thousand Nights & A Night A Plain & Literal Translation of the Arabian NightsÕ Entertainments Made &… (1934) — Traductor — 3 exemplars
The book of the thousand nights and a night: a plain and literal translation of the arabian nights entertainments, Vol.… (2012) 3 exemplars
The Vice: Containing Sir Richard Burton's Sotadic Zone and Extracts from Dr. Jacobus' Untrodden Fields of Anthropology… (1967) 3 exemplars
Supplemental Nights Volume 3 3 exemplars
Supplemental nights : to the book of the thousand and one nights with notes, anthroplogical and explanatory, Vol. 7 (2011) 2 exemplars
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, Translated and Annotated by His Friend and Pupil, Sir Richard Burton (1931) 2 exemplars
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nafzawi: Richard Francis Burton (Classics, Literature) [Annotated] (2021) 2 exemplars
Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introductory Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men… (1994) 2 exemplars
Ultima Thule; or, a Summer in Iceland. With historical introduction, maps, and illustrations. 2 exemplars
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night VOLUME V: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 2 exemplars
Viagem de canoa de Sabará ao oceano Atlântico 2 exemplars
Unexplored Syria 2 Volume Set: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern… (2012) 2 exemplars
Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights… (2011) 2 exemplars
The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night - Volume 3 (Annotated) (2016) 2 exemplars
Märchen aus tausend und einer Nacht 1 exemplars
The Arabian Nights, Volume I: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights: 1 (Signet Classics) 1 exemplars
Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and… (2012) 1 exemplars
Burton's Reisen Nach Medina Und Mekka Und in Das Somaliland Nach Härrär in Ost-Afrika (German Edition) (2012) 1 exemplars
The 2nd Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor 1 exemplars
The book of the thousand nights and a night A plain and literal translation of The arabian nights entertainments Volume… (2015) 1 exemplars
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night VOLUME IV: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 1 exemplars
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night VOLUME III: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 1 exemplars
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night. VOLUME II: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 1 exemplars
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night. VOLUME I: 1885 (London "Burton Club" edition), illustrated (2017) 1 exemplars
Meine Wallfahrt nach Medina und Mekka 1 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Annotated) (Arabian Nights) (Volume 3) (2016) 1 exemplars
The Book of thousand nights and a night 1 exemplars
THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT (17 VOL.S). 1 exemplars
Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights… (2011) 1 exemplars
Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Seven volumes [Vol. 2 missing] 1 exemplars
The Arabian nights , vol II 1 exemplars
The Life of Sir Richard Burton (2 Volumes in 1) 1 exemplars
Bilješke o Istri 1 exemplars
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Burton's Arabian Nights) 10 Volumes Complete Set (1885) 1 exemplars
Classics Illustrated: Arabian Nights 1 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Annotated) (Arabian Nights) (Volume 8) (2016) 1 exemplars
Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines. Also, Canoeing down… (2002) 1 exemplars
The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night - Volume 6 (Annotated) (2016) 1 exemplars
Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast, Volume 1 1 exemplars
Vikram and the Vampire Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance (Classics To Go) 1 exemplars
Viagens aos planaltos do Brasil 1 exemplars
The Sotadic Zone 1 exemplars
Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights 1 exemplars
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 16 (Volume 16) 1 exemplars
The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2 1 exemplars
The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions : With Illustrations, and Intineraries of the Principal… (2018) 1 exemplars
Arabian Nights (Volume 13) 1 exemplars
Arabian Nights (Volume 10) 1 exemplars
The lake regions of Central Africa. Volume 1 1 exemplars
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS, THE SECOND VOLUME, & NOTES ON THE SECOND VOLUME, IN TWO VOLUMES. 1 exemplars
The Complete Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: Complete Edition 1 exemplars
The Richard Burton Poetry Collection 1 exemplars
The Pentameron of Giambattista Basile 1 exemplars
The Book of a Thousands Nights and Night 6 vol 1 exemplars
THE COMPLETE ARABIAN NIGHTS (ILLUSTRATED): THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT (2016) 1 exemplars
Mystery of the Sacred Shroud 1 exemplars
The Search for the Source of the Nile 1 exemplars
A Pilgramage to El-Medinah and Meccah 1 exemplars
The Lake Regions of Central Africa 1 exemplars
The Land of Midian 1 exemplars
The Kasidah of haji Abdu El-Yezdi. c.1 1 exemplars
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in Asia and Africa (2002) 1 exemplars
A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments now entituled The Book of the Thousand… (2010) 1 exemplars
Arabian Nights. Transl Richard Burton. 1 exemplars
Collected Works of Sir Richard Francis Burton 1 exemplars
Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. vol. 1/2 1 exemplars
Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. vol. 2/2 1 exemplars
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Arabian Nights: Four Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Pegasus Library) (1750) — Editor, algunes edicions — 43 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Burton, Richard Francis
- Altres noms
- El-Yezdi, Haji Abdu (pseudonym)
- Data de naixement
- 1821-03-19
- Data de defunció
- 1890-10-20
- Lloc d'enterrament
- St Mary Magdalen Church, Mortlake, London, England, UK
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Torquay, Devon, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Trieste, Austria-Hungary
- Causa de la mort
- heart attack
- Llocs de residència
- Tours, France
Trieste, Austria-Hungary
Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UK - Educació
- University of Oxford (Trinity College)
- Professions
- explorer
translator
geographer
writer
soldier
orientalist (mostra-les totes 7)
diplomat - Relacions
- Burton, Isabel (wife)
Stisted, Georgiana M. (niece) - Organitzacions
- East India Company
Anthropological Society of London - Premis i honors
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (1908)
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (1886)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society - Biografia breu
- 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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- Obres
- 364
- També de
- 21
- Membres
- 8,140
- Popularitat
- #2,972
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 83
- ISBN
- 483
- Llengües
- 14
- Preferit
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Eu entendo que foi um livro importante, e para mim, no entanto, vai ser apenas isso, um livro que sei ser importante e nada mais; gostei mais da Epopéia de Gilgamesh do que as Mil e uma Noites.
Muitos dos meus autores favoritos sempre recomendam esse livro, mas, sei lá, muito impalpável para mim. Fico me perguntando até se li a versão certa, dada a chuva de cinco estrelas que esse livro recebe por aqui. Um dia eu tento de novo. Talvez o caminho seja ler os contos espaçados e não em sequência, dada a grande repetição de temas. Talvez o caminho seja outra edição. Sinceramente não sei.… (més)