Soldier, scholar, explorer, spy, shagger!
A man who spoke twenty-nine languages—plus a dozen more dialects.A man who carried the scars of a spear wound through both cheeks and still managed to insult people afterwards.
He was a man who was fascinated by the dark and mysterious corners of the world and of the human psyche.
Today we are going to Learn about one of Britain’s greatest explorers, an extreme character – complex and unconventional . . .sirs ma’am’s ladies and gents I give you the one and only Richard Francis Burton.
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Burton is also the main character in the sci-fi novel by Philip Jose Farmer called To Your Scattered Bodies Go.
Part of the Riverworld series. Worth a read.
I've been fascinated by RFB since the 1990s book – a true Uk hero.
His interpretation of "The Arabian Nights Entertainment" was a Victorian scandal and a true literary gem. The man liked his hashish and proclaimed the medicinal benefits of cannabis. One of the Englishmen that I admire most.
@4:25 But, visiting the Cleveland Street male brothels in & about London is no problem if you’re from the proper class.
I first heard of Burton in the 70’s & obtained his “Book of the Sword”. Burton, who along with Meinertzhagen & Boyes fueled my fascination with British swashbucklers.
Looks like you really had fun making that one!
Was he once known as 'Prince'?😂
Thank you, really enjoyed this one. It was only after a minute in that I thought I had seen the name before but in relation to Huguenot history: "His paternal grandfather, Edward Burton, was an English clergyman who had emigrated
to Ireland in the latter half of the eighteenth century, became Rector of Tuam, and married a
girl of what may have been French-Irish descent. There was a legend in the Burton family to
the effect that Louis XIV of France fathered a son by the Huguenot Countess of
Montmorency whom he never acknowledged. This boy, named Louis le Jeune, was raised a
Protestant and smuggled out of France to Ireland, where he was adopted by the Jacobite Lady
Primrose. His name was translated as Louis Young, but he was called Drelincourt Young
after his guardian and godfather, Dean Drelincourt of Armagh, where he was educated. Louis
Young eventually married one of the Dean's daughters and sired two children, one of whom,
Sarah Young, was Richard Burton's paternal great-grandmother."
Righto. I read books about him years ago and recently purcased a dvd of Mountains . . Another good trail to follow is Charles "Chinese Gordon" and his other legendary nickname Gordon of Khartoum. Of course, never forget Stanley and Livingston. These lads were extraordinary. I can't think of the like today. An ex-colonial Yank Roy Chapman Andrews explored unlnown Asia in the 1920s. An adventurous Arab Ibn Batuta much earlier outdid them all.
"he does this without getting stabbed", he'd get stabbed on public transport in England nowadays!
Awesome mate