Author:Richard Francis Burton

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Richard Francis Burton
(1821–1890)

Richard Francis Burton

Works

Articles

• Notes Relative to the Population of the Sind; and the Customs, Language, and Literature of the People, 1847
• Jose Basilio de Gama, the Man and the Poet, 1878
• This is How the War Began , 1882

Poetry

• Poem to his wife, Isabel Burton

Translations

Burton's translations of ancient and foreign works were often heavily annotated by himself, and as such add considerably more information than mere translations.

• "Alma minha gentil, que te partiste‎" in Littell's Living Age, 149 (1921)
• "Em quanto quiz Fortuna que tivesse" in Littell's Living Age, 149 (1921)
• ""Eu cantarei de amor tao docemente"" in Littell's Living Age, 155 (1999)
• ""Na metade do Ceo subido ardia"" in Littell's Living Age, 155 (1999)
• "No mundo poucos annos, e cansados" in Littell's Living Age, 149 (1921)
• ""Que levas, cruel morte? Hum claro dia"" in Littell's Living Age, 155 (1999)
• The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, (10 volumes, 1885–1886) also known as The Arabian Nights
  • When I Drew Up Her Shift, poem from within
• Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry (1870) (transcription project)
• The Lands of Cazembe: Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798 (1873) (external scan)
• Kāma-Shāstra as "R.F.B" with "A.F.F," (Foster Fitgerald Arbuthnot) (1873), and later in 1885 as Ananga-Ranga (transcription project)
• Sindbar (1877)
• The Lusiads (1880) (transcription project)
• Kama Sutra, 1883 (transcription project)
• Camoens: The Lyricks (1884) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
  • Ah! minha Dinamene! Assim deixaste, poem from within
• The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night (six volumes 1886–1888)
• The Perfumed Garden (1886)
• Manuel De Moraes (1886) translated with his wife, Isabel Burton; bound with Iraçéma which was translated by Isabel Burton
• The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa'di (1888)
• Priapeia [1] (1890). Translated with Leonard C. Smithers
• Il Pentamerone (1893)
• The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus (1894) with notes by Leonard C. Smithers (external scan)
• Tales from the Gulistan by Sa'di (1928)

Original works

• Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or six months of sick leave. (1851) (external scan)
• Scinde; or the Unhappy Valley (2 volumes, 1851) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Sind and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus (1851)
• Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (1852)
• A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise (1853)
• Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah (1855) (Project Gutenberg)
  • 2nd ed. (1857) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah (2 volumes) (external scans (multiple parts): [??? 1], 2)
  • Memorial ed. (1893) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, [??? 2])
• First Footsteps in East Africa (1856) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Lake Regions of Equatorial Africa (1860)
• Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa, 1860
• The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (1861) (transcription project)
  • Alternate edition (start transcription)
• Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po (2 volumes, 1863) (external scans (multiple parts): [??? 1], 2)
• Abeokuta and The Cameroon Mountains (2 volumes, 1863)
• A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahomé (2 volumes, 1864) (transcription project)
• The Nile Basin (1864). Part one only; part two was by James M‘Queen
• Wit and Wisdom From West Africa (1865) (transcription project)
• Stone Talk (1865)
• Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil (1869) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Letters from the Battlefields of Paraguay (1870) (external scan)
• Unexplored Syria (with Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt Drake, 2 volumes, 1872) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast (2 volumes, 1872) (external scans (multiple parts): [??? 1], 2)
• Ultima Thule; or A Summer in Iceland (1875) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo (1876) (Project Gutenberg)
• Etruscan Bologna (1876) (external scan)
• A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry (1876) (external scan)
• Sind Revisited (1877) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. A fortnight’s tour in north-western Arabia (1878) Index:Gold Mines of Midian.pdf
• The Land of Midian (1879) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Report on Two Expeditions to Midian (1880)
• The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1880) (external scan) or (external scan)
• Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads. A commentary (1881) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• A Glance at the Passion Play (1881)
• To the Gold Coast for Gold (1883) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• The Book of the Sword (1884) (external scan)
• The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam (1898)
• Wanderings in Three Continents (1901, edited by W. H. Wilkins) (external scan)
• The Sentiment of the Sword. A country-house dialogue. (1911, edited by A. Forbes Sieveking) (external scan)

Editing

• The Prairie Traveller, a Hand-book for Overland Expeditions. By Randolph B. Marcy, (1863)
• The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse in A.D. 1547-1555 (1874). Annotations to a translation by Albert Tootal
• Marocco and the Moors 2nd edition (1891), by Arthur Leared

Fragments

• "The Tale and the Poet"

Transcription projects

• The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
  • Volume I

Works about Burton

Contemporary

• Letter on Behalf of Richard F. Burton, by Cardinal Wiseman
• Burton's Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, as it appeared in The Rambler, Volume IV. 1855.
• To Richard F. Burton, On His Translation of the Arabian Nights, 1886 poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Letter on the death of Burton, as published in the Times of India
• On the Death of Richard Burton, by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Obituary: Richard Francis Burton" in Popular Science Monthly, 38 (January 1891)
• A Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton (1886) by Alfred Bates Richards, Andrew Wilson, and St. Clair Baddeley (external scan)
• "Burton, Sir Richard Francis," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Burton, Richard Francis," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)

Later

• The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton by Georgiana M. Stisted, (1896) (external scan)
• The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by his Wife, Isabel Lady Burton (1893) Isabel BurtonIndex:The life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton (IA b21778401).pdf
• The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton, 1897, co-written by his widow and her colleagues
• Richard F. Burton: his Early Private and Public Life, with an Account of his Travels and Explorations, by Francis Hitchman (2 volumes, 1897). (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• "Burton, Richard Francis," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Burton, Sir Richard Francis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• Burton, Sir Richard and Lady as it appeared in Every Woman's Encyclopaedia Volume IV, by J. A. Brendon.
• "Burton, Sir Richard Francis," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• The Life of Sir Richard Burton (1906) by Thomas Wright (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• "Honor, not Honors", a poem by Florence Earle Coates
• "Burton, Sir Richard Francis," in Dictionary of Indian Biography (p. 64), by C. E. Buckland, London: Swan Sonnenschein (1906)