Male : Traveller, Explorer, Translator and writer. Married Isabel Arundell (1831-96). Explored Somaliland (1854), the Nile (1856-9) and in North America in 1860. British Consul in Brazil (1864-9), Damascus (1869-71), Trieste (1872-5). On the night of his death Isabel burned all his unpublished notes and 41 unpublished MSS, hoping to preserve her husband's reputation

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Barham House, Hertfordshire (Baptized in Elstree but possibly born in Torquay)

Date of Birth : 1821 Date of Death : 1890 Age : 69

Other Work : Army officer (Capt)

Education : Trinity College, Oxford (rusticated)

1849-1855
A Grammar of the Jataki or Belochki Dialect (1849)
A Grammar of the Multani Language (1849)
Critical Remarks on Dr Dorn's Chrestomathy of Pushtu, or the Afghan Dialect (1849)
Sind, or the Unhappy Valley (1851)
Sindh, and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus (1851 W H Allen)
Goa and the Blue Mountains, or Six Months of Sick Leave (1851 Bentley)
Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (1852)
A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise (1853)
A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Mecca (1855-6 Longman) - 3 vols
(1856 Putnam NY)

1856-1866
First Footsteps in East Africa (1856 Longmans Green)
The Lake Regions of Central Africa : A Picture of Exploration (1860 Longman) - 2 vols
(1860 Harper, NY)
The City of the Saints & Across the Rocky Mountains to California (1861 London) (1862 Harper)
The Prairie Traveller : A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions (1863 Trubner)
Offered in 1998 for £490
Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains : An Exploration (1863 Tinsley) - 2 vols
Wanderings in West Africa : From Liverpool to Fernando Po (1863 Tinsley) - 2 vols
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (1864 Tinsley) - 2 vols
Wit and Wisdom from West Africa (1865 Tinsley)
(Trans) Wit and Wisdom from West Africa (1865)

1866-1875
Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil .. the Gold & Diamond Mines (1869 Tinsley) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £625
Letters from the Battlefields of Paraguay (1870)
(Trans) Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry (1870 Longmans, Green)
Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry (1870 Longmans Green) - Ernest Griset
Zamzibar : City, Island & Coast (1872 Tinsley) - 2 vols
Unexplored Syria (1872 London) - 2 vols. with Charles F T Drake
(Trans) The Lands of Cazembe : Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798 (1873 Murray)
The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse 1547-1555 among the Wild tribes of East Brazil
(1874 Hakluyt Society) - annotated by Burton
Gorilla Land, or the Cataracts of the Congo (1875)
Inner Life of Syria (1875)
Ultima Thule, or a Summer in Iceland (1875 Nimmo) - 2 vols
(Trans) Gerber's Province of Minas Geraes (1875)

1876-1880
Etruscan Bologna : A Study (1876 Smith Elder)
Two trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo (1876 London) - 2 vols
Sind Revisited (1877 Richard Bentley) - 2 vols
Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities : A Fortnight's Tour in NW Arabia
(1878 Kegan Paul)
The Land of Midian Revisited (1879 Kegan Paul) - 2 vols

1881-1890
(Trans) Camoens : his Life and his Lusiads : A Commenatary (1881 Quaritch, London) - 2 vols
To the Gold Coast for Gold : A Personal Narrative
(1883 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols. with V L Cameron
The Book of the Sword (1884 Chatto & Windus)
Offered in 1991 for £470
(Trans) Luis de Camoens : The Lyrics (Sonnets, Canzons and Sextines)
(1884 Quaritch, London) - 2 vols
(Trans) The Arabian Nights (1885-8 The Burton Club) - 17 vols
(Trans) The Perfumed Garden of Shaykh Nefzawi (1886)
(Trans) Pripaeia, or the Sportive Epigrams of Divers Poets on Priapus (1890)

1891-1900
Marocco and the Moors : Being an Account of Travels (1891 London. 2nd Ed)
The Works : Memorial Edition (1893 Tylston & Edwards, London) - 7 vols. Edited by Isabel Burton
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (1893 Tylston & Edwards, London. Memorial Edition) - 2 vols
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al- Madinah & Meccah
(1893 London. Memorial Edition) - 2 vols
(Trans) il Pentamerone (1893 Henry & Co, London) - 2 vols. 165
(Trans) The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus (1894 Smithers) - 1000
First Footsteps in East Africa, or an exploration of Harar
(1894 London. Memorial Edition) - 2 vols
The Jew, the Gipsy and El Islam (1898 Hutchinson)

AFTER 1901
Wanderings in Three Continents (1901 Hutchinson)
Selected Papers on Anthology, Travel & Exploration (1924 A M Philpot, London)
- 100 on handmade paper
(Trans) The Kasidah of Haji Adbu El-Yezdi (1925 Philip Allan, London) - John Kettlewell
(Trans) The Kasidah of Haji Adbu El-Yezdi (1931 David McKay, Phila) - Willy Pogany
The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1961 Horizon Press, NY) - 2 vols
Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities (1979 Falcon-Oleander Press, Cambridge)
The Land of Midian (Revisited) (1984 Oleander Press, Cambridge) - 2 vols

FILM
"Mountains of the Moon" (1989)
[Burton & Speke's search for the source of the Nile]

READING
Francis Hitchman : Richard F Burton - His Early, Private & Public Life (1887 London) - 2 vols
Isabel Burton : Life of Sir Richard Burton (1893 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
Georgiana M Stisted : The True Life of Capt Sir Richard F Burton (1896 Nichols, London)
[written by Burton's niece]
Thomas Wright : The Life of Sir Richard Burton (1906 Everett, London) (1906 Putnam, NY) - 2 vols
Walter P Dodge : The Real Sir Richard Burton (1907 Unwin)
Norman M Penzer : Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Burton
(1923 Philpot - 500) (1967 Dawsons Pall Mall, London)
F Downey : Burton - Arabian Nights Adventurer (1931 Scribner, NY)
Seton Dearden : The Arabian Knight - A Study of Sir Richard Burton (1936 Arthur Barker)
Lesley Blanch : The Wilder Shores of Love (1954 Murray)
J Burton : Life of Lady Burton
Byron Farwell : Burton (1963 London)
A Edwardes : Death Rides a Camel - A Biography of Sir Richard Burton (1963 Julian Press, NY)
(Ed) C W Newbury : Richard F Burton - Mission to King Gelele of Dahome (1966 London)
(Ed) Gordon Waterfield : Richard F Burton - First Foosteps in East Africa (1966 London)
Fawn M Brodie : The Devil Drives - A Life of Sir Richard Burton (1967 NY)
William Harrison : Burton & Speke (1982 St Martin's, NY) (1984 W H Allen)
Mary S Lovell : A Rage to Live - A Biography of Richard & Isabel Burton (1998 Little Borwn £25)