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Richard Francis Burton
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Standard Name: Burton, Richard Francis
Used Form: Sir Richard F. Burton
Victorian explorer and diplomat
published more than forty volumes of travel writing, as well as folklore and poetry. He is best remembered for his translations of erotic works.Timeline
Texts
Arabian Nights. Translator Burton, Richard Francis, Printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only, 1886, 10 vols.
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. Translator Burton, Richard Francis, Forgotten Books, 2008, 16 vols.
Burton, Richard Francis. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856, 3 vols.
Vatsyayana,. The Kama Sutra. Translator Burton, Richard Francis, Printed for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, for private circulation only, 1883.
al-Nafzawi, ’Umar ibn Muhammad. The Perfumed Garden. Translator Burton, Richard Francis, Printed by the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, for private circulation only, 1886.