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Burton of Arabia : the life story of Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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"Seton Dearden has rescued the adventurer from the dusty dullness of his biographers, and restored to human shape a fascinating if paradoxical character"--dust jacket.
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"The Rothschild collection of the works by a relating to Sir Richard Burton and Lady Isabel Burton is composed of five distinct parts: (I) Autograph Manuscripts; (II) Autograph Letters; (III) Presentation, Inscribed, and Annotated Works; (IV) Drawings and Photographs, and (V) Printed Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. Each of these components of the collection is described in Parts I-V below"--From foreword.
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"Today, the achievements of the great Victorian explorer and linguist Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) may be more widely acknowledged than they were in his own time. The centennial of his death has been marked in England and America with exhibits, conferences, and book-length studies of his life and work. In this volume, eight leading scholars and book collectors present a remarkable composite picture of Burton's legacy to the twentieth century: his adventures as an explorer of unknown lands and little-known cultures; his achievements as a geographer and translator; the mysteries of his relations with other explorers and of his personal life. The essays were originally presented at a conference at the Huntington Library, now the largest repository of Burtoniana. The illustrations represent rare items in Burton's own library and the collections of Edwards H. Metcalf and Quentin Keynes"--Back cover.
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The spirit and scope of this authoritative biography of Richard Burton do full justice to a fantastic life.
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This collection contains approximately 450 articles, offprints, pamphlets and other works, covering a span of 1812 to 1894, collected by the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and forming part of his library. The items are contained in 432 envelopes and cover 17 different categories of material: General; Periodicals, Congress Reports; Anthropology, Archaeology, Folklore; Biography; Geography, Travel; Linguistics; Literature; Medicine, Psychology; Religion, Philosophy; Science, Pure, Natural, Applied; Sword; Africa; Americas; Asia; Europe; Pacific, Australasia. Some of the works include manuscript annotations by Burton as well as correspondence sent to him and insertions of articles and clippings. This is a subsection of the Sir Richard Francis Burton Library Printed Material Collection in the Rare Books Department. Those items can be searched as a whole under the heading: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890, former owner or Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896, former owner.
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