Wanderings in 3 Continents

Wanderings in Three Continents

BURTON was a many-sided man. The following volume of posthumous essays reveals him in the aspect in which he was best known to the worldas a traveller and explorer. It will add comparatively little to the knowledge of the Burton student; to the general reader it will contain much that is new, for though Burton wrote and published many bulky volumes of travel in years gone by, none of them assumed a popular form, and it may be doubted if any, save his Pilgrimage to Meccah and El Medinah, reached the outer circle of the great reading public. Most of his books are now out of copyright, many are out of print, and few are easily obtainable. This volume, therefore, will supply a need, in that it gives in a popular form a consensus of his most important travels in three continents. It will also, I hope, remind his countrymen of the achievements of this remarkable man, and bring home to many a deeper sense of what we have lost in him. This was the view taken by Lady Burton, who had hoped to incorporate these essays in her memorial edition of The Labours and Wisdom of Sir Richard Burton, a work cut short by her death. Upon me, therefore, has devolved the task of editing them and preparing them for publication. They form the second volume of the Burton MSS. which have been published since Lady Burtons death, and I am the more encouraged to give them to the world by the success which attended the previous volume, The Jew, the Gypsy, and El Islam. The reception of this book, though published under obvious difficulties, and eight years after the authors death, showed that the interest in the great travellers work was in no degree abated. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67003
Author: Burton, Richard Francis
Release Date: Dec 24, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Wilkins, W. H. (William Henry), 1860-1905
Illustrator: McCormick, A. D. (Arthur David), 1860-1943