Ye Olde Crime

Sir Richard Francis Burton: Explorer, Spy, and Scholar

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Lindsay and Madison discuss Sir Richard Francis Burton, as well as why it’s wrong to wear brown face, that translating erotica from other cultures was supes taboo, and how to be an accomplished man of mystery.

Information pulled from the following sources:

  • 2020 Discover Silversea article by Carolyn Spencer Brown
  • 2018 Borges, Desire, and Sex - Chapter 4 - Sir Richard Burton’s Orientalist Erotica
  • 2018 The Romance of Lady Isabel Burton, by Isabel Burton
  • 2018 Unexplained Mysteries article by T.K. Randall
  • 2015 FT Magazine Oxford article by Jeremy Paxman
  • 2011 International League of Antiquarian Booksellers article by Raymond John Howgego
  • 1890 The Athenaeum article
  • 1890 Morning Post article
  • BBC History article
  • “The Book of Burtoniana” by Gavan Tredoux
  • Britannica
  • Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton Museum article
  • “First Footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar by Richard Burton
  • Find a Grave
  • Geni
  • Habitats & Heritage article
  • “The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World” by Dane Kennedy
  • House Histree article
  • “The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi” by Richard F. Burton
  • “The Life of Sir Richard Burton” by Thomas Wright
  • Princeton Library article
  • Wikipedia

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