|
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
|
Richard Burton
|
|
(1821–90, KCMG 1886) Author and explorer, whose brilliance at languages enabled him to mingle as a native in the bazaars of India and to make the pilgrimage to *Mecca in 1853 disguised as a Muslim. He was a companion of *Speke during part of the search for the source of the Nile, though he later disputed Speke's claim to have found it. His chief literary monument is his unexpurgated translation of The *Arabian Nights (16 vols, 1885–8). His widow, Isabel, destroyed all his private papers and built him a marble tent as a memorial in Mortlake.
|
|
|
|