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The Romance of Lady Burton, HTML transcription (same as above, direct link).
The True Life of Capt.
Chaille-Long, Charles, Bey
1912. My Life in Four Continents. An accidental resemblance to Burton?
Leighton's portrait of the Burton summer residence at Salahiyyeh outside Damascus.
The Highly Civilized Man, taken by Claudet in London in 1861.
In the garden at Trieste, 1890.
It is relatively compact and not without its limitations (primarily in that it is based entirely on Burton's own writings), but if a recommendation must be made for a single volume, this is the one. He also visited Berbera, in Somalia, where he learnt about the ‘inland sea’ spoken about by the local traders. 'A bit ahead of us my boy' say Baedeker and Murray's Guide.
"Our moonshee", from "Curry and Rice on Forty Plates" by George Atkinson, 1859.
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Wright's Life, HTML transcription (same as above, direct link).
The Real Sir Richard Burton
Walter Phelps Dodge, 1907
A short biography with little that is new or not otherwise derived from the prior biographies. 2 vols. London, Chapman and Hall. All are readily available in used, and sometimes new form.
That Blackguard Burton!
Alfred Bercovici, 1962
A fictionalized and sensational pseudo-biography by a writer of a number of similar works and little else.
At the very top of the tent is a gold leaf coated Star of Bethlehem.
Rumours quickly circulated that Burton was to blame, which, although false, followed him throughout his subsequent career as a diplomat.
Linguistics
Burton’s extraordinary linguistic abilities led him to become proficient in up to twenty-nine languages including Latin, French, Hindi, Arabic, Italian and Greek.
Reminiscences from the Dana family, with whom Burton shared a coach on the route to Salt Lake City.
Russell, Mrs. Charles E. B. (Lilian Rigby)
1935. General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade. Debate on this technique is ongoing, but one major consensus is that attempting to analyze pre-Freudian personalities in a post-Freudian world is an exercise in futility.
Brodie does indeed psychoanalyze Burton, to questionable conclusions. New Haven, Yale University Press. Burton believed that this might be the source of the Nile, which had eluded generations of travellers and explorers.
With further support from the RGS, Burton set off from the Zanzibar coast with John Hanning Speke, who had joined him on his expedition to Harar and Berbera, and a retinue of 132 porters.
Although it is nominally a biography of Isabel — the first, excepting her autobiography — it perforce covers as much of Burton's life as Isabel's. Highly readable and with few major omissions or inaccuracies.
Despite this good overall rating, I found myself struck, on rereading it for the first time in several years, by how depressing and negative Farwell's portrait is.
The original pamphlet of some 90 pages was written and assembled from other sources by Richards, who names himself only as “An Old Oxonian” on the title page.
Downey, Fairfax
1931. Burton, Arabian Nights Adventurer. New York, Scribner.
Derivative.
Schonfield, Hugh J.
1936. Richard Burton, Explorer. London, Herbert Joseph.
Dearden, Seton
1937. Burton of Arabia. New York, Robert M.
McBride Co.
Derivative.
Bercovici, Alfred
1962. That Blackguard Burton! New York, Bobbs Merrill.
Written in historical novel form. Her infamous final chapter all but claims Burton's drive came from a streak of latent homosexuality. Dearden wrote a revised edition that appeared in 1953 under the title Arabian Knight: A Study of Sir Richard Burton.