From J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
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thick8vo., 22cm, The First Edition, in 2 volumes, [xxiii],606 & [viii],664pp., with 36 plates & illustrations, (including a 2 frontis portraits & five maps & 2 colour chromo litho plates), appendices, index, title page rubricated, complete with half titles, in fine binding by "Baynton, Bath, Eng" in half crushed crimson morocco, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt titles, borders and decoration devices in the panels, fine grain red cloth boards, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., bookplate, a fine sound set in fine binding.(cgc). Soldier, explorer, linguist, ethnologist, and controversialist. Mostly self-educated, he mastered half a dozen Eastern languages after joining the Army of the East India Company in 1842, and produced ground-breaking ethnological studies of Sindh in the early 1850s. He then completed a famous pilgrimage to Mecca, in 1853, disguised as a Pathan he became the first European to visit the forbidden city of Harrar in 1855; served with Beatson's Horse in the Crimea in 1855; led the expedition to East Africa that in 1858 discovered Lake Tanganyika and, through his deputy John Hanning Speke, the headwaters of the Nile, Lake Victoria Nyanza After ascending the Cameroons Mountains in 1862, he led a notable mission to the King of Dahomey in 1863; rafted down the Rio Sao Francisco in Brazil in 1867; collaborated in the publication of the Kama Sutra and Ananga Ranga; and in the 1880s translated the poetry of Camoens from Portuguese, and the first unexpurgated 1000 Nights and a Night from Arabic. Seller Inventory # 42278
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Title: The Life of Captain Richard F. Burton. With ...
Publisher: London. Chapman & Hall. 1893
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