Tag Archives: Thomas Wright biographer

waiting for the wanderer: of mountains and moons

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Dave

Hidden, unknowable, unthinkable. The rebel Victorian. Sir Richard Burton and his explorations, eccentric tastes and ever watchful wife… But Burton is a Romany name, and as Richard Burton had certain gipsy characteristics, some persons have credited him with gipsy lineage. … Continue reading →

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arabian nights: plain and literal translations…

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dave

In 1865 Richard Burton was transferred to Santos in Brazil , where Isabel for the first time was able to make a home. They spent four years in Brazil, two in Damascus- which ended in trouble because of the intrigues … Continue reading →

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eccentric tastes and ever watchful wife

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dave

The unthinkable. The unknowable. The hidden. The explorations of Sir Richard Burton…. Burton married Isabel Arundel in 1861, in an almost secret ceremony in the Bavarian Catholic Church. “We will have no show,” Burton insisted, “for a grand marriage ceremony … Continue reading →

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an englishman in salt lake city

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Dave

…So swiftly did he write, that before one book had left the binders, another was on its way to the printers. Systole, diastole, never ceasing—never even pausing. Miss Arundell being inflexible, Burton resolved to let the matter remain nine months … Continue reading →

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burton and the polygamy riddle

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Dave

…The Mormons at this time were considered a great curiosity in England. Since the murder of Joseph Smith in Illinois in 1844, and the subsequent dramatic exodus to the desert isolation of the great inland sea, the sect had flourished … Continue reading →

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odd couple: moons and mountains and source of the matter

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Dave

Captain Sir Richard Burton and the “Speke-easy” … Burton went to Africa in late 1858 with the thirty year old John Speke, who had been wounded with him in Somaliland. This was to prove a disastrous choice. Speke was a … Continue reading →

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anti-hero

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Dave

Sir Richard Burton, the great anti-hero and his explorations, his eccentric tastes, and his ever watchful wife. … In later life Burton’s reputation for telling the truth, even when it was supremely tactless, nevertheless continued to be paralleled by his … Continue reading →

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eccentric tastes and watchful wife…

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Dave

The hidden. The unknowable. The unthinkable. Sir Richard Francis Burton. The first great anti-hero…. As a lieutenant in the British army in India, he had nothing but contempt for his fellow officers who remained aloof and indifferent to the exotic … Continue reading →