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Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Boa, India
ISBN : UOM:39015005320505
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Goa, Daman and Diu (India)
ISBN : OCLC:639735654
Author : RICHARD F. BURTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033252204
Author : Richard F. Burton
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497829127
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1851 Edition.
Author : Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0598448365
Author : Richard F. Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1409900347
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (1821-1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages. He was a captain in the army of the East India Company serving in India. Following this he was engaged by the Royal Geographical Society to explore the east coast of Africa and led an expedition guided by the locals which discovered Lake Tanganyika. His best-known achievements include travelling in disguise to Mecca, making an unexpurgated translation of The Book of One Thousand Nights and a Night. Burton was considered a controversial figure in his day; many considered him a hero, others jealous of his achievements called him a scoundrel. Burton remains possibly the greatest explorer ever because of his remarkable research and uncensored documentation of the lifestyles of the various cultures he encountered in his adventures.
Author : Richard F. Burton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0266300812
Excerpt from Goa, and the Blue Mountains: Or, Six Months of Sick Leave What a glad moment it is, to be sure, when the sick and seedy, the tired and testy invalid from pestiferous Scinde or pestilential Guzerat, leaves all behind him and scrambles over the sides of his Pattimar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387307870
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Richard F Burton
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129834414X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard F. Burton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530754682
This is a smart and lively volume, with which everyone will have faults to find, but which will afford considerable pleasure to Anglo-Indian, if not to home readers. It assumes all those jauntish airs for which ninety-nine light books of travel out of a hundred are now distinguished, and there is a rapidity of transition from caricature and badinage to sober narrative, which rather does violence to good taste; yet we can safely recommend it both for the amusement and information which it affords. Our author left Bombay to visit, on sick certificate, the Neilgherries, which word he translates, for the benefit of English readers, and calls "the Blue Mountains." At starting he is unreasonably severe upon our harbor of Bombay. To compare with the Bay of Naples all that comes under the eye of a passenger when his ship sails down to her anchorage at Bombay would certainly be absurd; perhaps it would be absurd to compare any single view here with beautiful Parthenope, and its classic associations. But he who has been so fortunate as to enjoy the interior scenery of our harbor, and to sail up to Ghorebunder, well knows that for variety and boldness of outline, and for richness of coloring, the beauties of the view are unrivalled. The description of Goa is rather meager; we hoped to find some details of those imposing edifices about which Buchanan first excited our curiosity, but we were doomed to disappointment, and were obliged to be content, instead, with the account of a rapscallion English Officer's adventure. And as we are thus brought to the subject, we cannot help remarking that, however unintentionally, this work represents the British Officer in anything but a favorable light. It furnishes us with narratives of two, who, with the author, have not done their best to support the national character. They are all said to have belonged to the Bombay Army; one, a Major G-- , married a Seroda nautch girl, his mistress, adopted the habits and superstitions of her countrymen, and, as far as Hindus would permit the miserable creature, he embraced their religion, performing their ceremonies, and aping their grotesque mummeries. The second was a wretch who invaded the sanctity of the nunnery of Santa Monaca, and by a combination of deceit, cunning, and falsehood, endeavored to abduct one of its immured inmates. How far the story, as given in this volume, is intended to be received as a verity, we cannot say. Told as it is by a native servant, in language which is a kind of imitation of Bulwer, it has an unmistakable air of romance, but we suppose that it is intended that we should receive the main facts as literally true. We have not room for the extract, which, if we set aside all considerations of morality, may, to some at least, be amusing enough. The story in short is this: A certain Lieut., celebrated for falsehood and hypocrisy, contrived, by trumping up a lying tale, to ingratiate himself with the Prioress, and to turn the head of a young woman under her charge, and whom he would have succeeded in bearing away to pollution if his vile attempt had not been baffled through a ludicrous mistake. The narrator produced the story to account for the refusal of the portress to show his master the cloisters. He was refused admittance because he was an Englishman. -The Bombay Quarterly Magazine and Review, Vol. 2 [1852]
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Malabar (India)
ISBN : OXFORD:600027510
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3042597
Author : Ines G. Županov
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0472114905
A provocative contribution to the history of early modern Euro-Asian interactions that provides new perspectives on the encounter between Catholicism and Hinduism in India
Author : Nicholas Murray
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780748111503
In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838 Bradshaw's famous portable railway timetable appeared. In 1841 Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agent, organised its first tour (from London to Leicester and back by train). The age of mass tourism had arrived. Side by side with it another phenomenom began to develop: exploration to wilder shores and uncharted lands. This is the focus of Nicholas Murray's fascinating book which draws upon the extraordinary stories of Livingstone's journey across Africa; Burton and Speke reaching Lake Tanganyika; John Stuart crossing Australia from south to north; Livingstone reaching the Zambezi; Richard Burton's travels across Arabia, and countless others' extraordinary and brave expeditions.
Author : Atreyee Phukan,V.G. Julie Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527561243
The essays in South Asia and Its Others: Reading the "Exotic" reveal fresh perspectives on the notion of exoticism in South Asia, and also challenge and extend existing scholarship in the broader discourse of what constitutes South Asia. Significantly, the anthology considers how the phenomenon of "exoticization" may be interpreted as a strategic methodology utilized by writers of South Asian descent to examine critically both the post-colonialist ramifications of casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence across differing cultural contexts within the region, and how current perceptions of "native" and "diasporic" South Asian subjects problematize ideologies of authenticity across Western-Eastern divides. The papers in this collection show how authors of South Asian ethnicity construct their own version of an "exotic" South Asia globally and the colonialist discourse of "exocitism" is employed as a discursive tool that uncovers the ambiguity that continues to mark the marginality of identities even today.