Tag Archives: Sir Richard Burton in India

waiting for the wanderer: of mountains and moons

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Dave

Hidden, unknowable, unthinkable. The rebel Victorian. Sir Richard Burton and his explorations, eccentric tastes and ever watchful wife… But Burton is a Romany name, and as Richard Burton had certain gipsy characteristics, some persons have credited him with gipsy lineage. … Continue reading →

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turn out your love light

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dave

…Upon finishing The Arabian Nights, Richard Francis Burton began to work on a new edition of The Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui, an Arabic manual on the art of love, a sort of complementary tome to the “literal” eroticism … Continue reading →

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eccentric tastes and ever watchful wife

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dave

The unthinkable. The unknowable. The hidden. The explorations of Sir Richard Burton…. Burton married Isabel Arundel in 1861, in an almost secret ceremony in the Bavarian Catholic Church. “We will have no show,” Burton insisted, “for a grand marriage ceremony … Continue reading →

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anti-hero

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Dave

Sir Richard Burton, the great anti-hero and his explorations, his eccentric tastes, and his ever watchful wife. … In later life Burton’s reputation for telling the truth, even when it was supremely tactless, nevertheless continued to be paralleled by his … 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 →