Richard Francis Burton has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel and Exploration.
Pilgerfahrt nach Medina und Mekka
Summary
Sir Richard Burton gibt sich 1853 bei seiner Ankunft in Kairo als britischer Untertan afghanischer Herkunft aus, um das Land als Europäer inkognito erforschen zu können. Er arbeitet zunächst als Arzt und beschäftigt sich intensiv mit den kulturellen Sitten und den religiösen und orthodoxen Regeln des Landes als Vorbereitung seiner bevorstehenden großen Reise.
Am 25. Juli erreicht Burton Medina, das er erkundet und ausführlich beschreibt. Nicht zuletzt Dank seines Freundes und treuen Begleiters Muhammad Al-Basyuni gelingt es Burton, das Innere zahlreicher Heiligtümer zu betreten und alle Riten der Hadsch zu vollziehen.
(c)+(p) 2007 Audiobuch Verlag OHG
Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel and Exploration
Summary
Finding from my own personal experience how troublesome it is to hunt through piles of dusty old volumes, I have decided to make a small selection of these papers which I consider are not only rare and very interesting, but which also give an insight into the varied activities and achievements of Burton’s crowded life. Even if local libraries fail to yield an old volume of some magazine long since withdrawn from circulation, one is almost certain of finding it at the British Museum. But then the British Museum is accessible only to a comparative few, and even those few will find that back numbers of journals, etc., are stored away in a distant building and several days’ notice has to be given before a required volume can be procured. Finally, some of the Burton pamphlets are so rare that the chance of finding them is little less than an impossibility. It will, I think, be realized that such a volume as this will not be superfluous, for, apart from saving people an enormous amount of trouble, it will give them further insight into the life-work of one of the greatest men of the Victorian era.
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