Tag Archives: Rupert Everett

richard burton : cities of the saints

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Dave

Breaking Victorian taboos, one expedition at a time… …In a later book, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, Richard Burton described a village with 20 per cent more males than females and noted jovially” Is it not a waste … Continue reading →

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burton and the polygamy riddle

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Dave

…The Mormons at this time were considered a great curiosity in England. Since the murder of Joseph Smith in Illinois in 1844, and the subsequent dramatic exodus to the desert isolation of the great inland sea, the sect had flourished … Continue reading →

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odd couple: moons and mountains and source of the matter

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Dave

Captain Sir Richard Burton and the “Speke-easy” … Burton went to Africa in late 1858 with the thirty year old John Speke, who had been wounded with him in Somaliland. This was to prove a disastrous choice. Speke was a … Continue reading →

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house of the holies: in the footsteps of the man’s man

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Dave

Although at least twelve Europeans had penetrated the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in disguise and lived to tell of the experiences, the risk of death if caught was real, and Burton took every precaution, including that of having … Continue reading →

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eccentric tastes and watchful wife…

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Dave

The hidden. The unknowable. The unthinkable. Sir Richard Francis Burton. The first great anti-hero…. As a lieutenant in the British army in India, he had nothing but contempt for his fellow officers who remained aloof and indifferent to the exotic … Continue reading →