Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
Auteur de The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
A propos de l'auteur
Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, translator, writer, soldier, spy, fencer, and diplomat. He is most famous for his translations of One Thousand and One Sights and the Kama Sutra and for having been the first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa. He once traveled to Mecca in disguise afficher plus and spoke nearly thirty languages. He died in 1890. afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Richard Francis Burton
The Illustrated Kama Sutra : Ananga-Ranga and Perfumed Garden - The Classic Eastern Love Texts (1987) 160 exemplaires
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics) (1932) — Traducteur — 133 exemplaires
Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) 132 exemplaires
The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar… (1932) 105 exemplaires
The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, all 16 volumes, with active table of contents (1885) 104 exemplaires
Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments (Dover Thrift Editions) (2002) 57 exemplaires
A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments now intituled The book of the thousand nights and… (1900) 42 exemplaires
The Arabian Nights Complete and Unabridged (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2010) 35 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 1 (Volume 1) (1885) 29 exemplaires
Historia ilustrada de las formas artisticas/ illustrated History of the Artistic Shapes: Egipto (Spanish Edition) (1990) 27 exemplaires
One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection (Delphi Classics) (Series Six Book 12) (2015) 26 exemplaires
The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam, by the late captain sir Richard F. Burton,... Edited, with a preface and brief notes,… (1898) 19 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2001) 19 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1934) 19 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 17 (Volume 17) (1885) 18 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 18 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1886) 16 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2001) 16 exemplaires
Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Centenary Edition) (1985) 16 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2008) 16 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2003) 15 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 15 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 10 (Volume 10) (2008) 14 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 14 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (2008) 14 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 14 (Volume 14) (1950) 14 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 16 (Volume 16) (1888) 13 exemplaires
The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… (1885) 13 exemplaires
The Arabian Nights: The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (The great tales) [abridged] [Naxos Audiobook] (1995) 11 exemplaires
The Lake Regions of Central Africa: From Zanzibar to Lake Tanganyika (Volume 1) (2001) 8 exemplaires
The Lake Regions of Central Africa: From Zanzibar to Lake Tanganyika (Volume 2) (2001) 8 exemplaires
Rare The Arabian Nights - Richard Burton Illustrated Leather Bound Hardback 1st Print (1777) 7 exemplaires
Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments; Vols.… 7 exemplaires
Supplemental Nights to the Book of a Thousand and One Nights with notes anthropological and explanatory Vol. 6 6 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ; Translated From the Arabic / by R. F. Burton. Reprinted From the Original… 6 exemplaires
Wit and Wisdom from West Africa: A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms (1969) 5 exemplaires
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nafzawi: Richard Francis Burton (Classics, Literature) [Annotated] (2021) 4 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: the complete Burton Translation with the Complete Burton Notes, the… 4 exemplaires
The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal, Illustrated Translation of the Arabian Nights… (2014) 4 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night a Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Made… (1962) 4 exemplaires
The Nile Basin 4 exemplaires
Arabian Nights MEDINA EDITION rare numbered 1885 hardcover (Medina Collection, Volume 3) 3 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 10 3 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol. 5 3 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night -- Volumes One and Two: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian… 3 exemplaires
The Book of The Thousand Nights & A Night A Plain & Literal Translation of the Arabian NightsÕ Entertainments Made &… (1934) — Traducteur — 3 exemplaires
Supplemental Nights Volume 3 3 exemplaires
Supplemental nights to the Book of the thousand nights and a night : with notes anthropological and explanatory Volume… (2011) 3 exemplaires
The Vice: Containing Sir Richard Burton's Sotadic Zone and Extracts from Dr. Jacobus' Untrodden Fields of Anthropology… (1967) 3 exemplaires
The Nile basin: Part I, showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy's western lake reservoir (2011) 3 exemplaires
The book of the thousand nights and a night: a plain and literal translation of the arabian nights entertainments, Vol.… (2012) 3 exemplaires
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night VOLUME V: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 2 exemplaires
Ultima Thule; or, a Summer in Iceland. With historical introduction, maps, and illustrations. 2 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 3 2 exemplaires
Alf Laylah Wal Laylah (Supplemental Nights), Vol. 3 2 exemplaires
Alf Laylalah Wal Laylah (Supplemental Nights) , Vol. 6 2 exemplaires
The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night - Volume 3 (Annotated) (2016) 2 exemplaires
The book of the thousand nights and a night : a plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments 2 exemplaires
Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introductory Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men… (1994) 2 exemplaires
The lake regions of central equatorial Africa, with notices of the Lunar Mountains and the sources of the White Nile:… 2 exemplaires
Viagem de canoa de Sabará ao oceano Atlântico 2 exemplaires
Persian stories from the Arabian nights 2 exemplaires
Tales From The Arabian Nights, Translation of Sir Richard Burton, with illustrations of Leon Carre, Franklin Library… — Traducteur — 2 exemplaires
Unexplored Syria 2 Volume Set: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern… (2012) 2 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 9 2 exemplaires
Alla ricerca delle sorgenti del Nilo e nel centro dell'Africa : viaggi celebri di Burton, Speke, Grant, Baker,… 2 exemplaires
THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT (17 VOL.S). 2 exemplaires
The Richard Burton Poetry Collection 2 exemplaires
Stone talk (Lithophónema) : being some of the marvellous sayings of a petral portion of Fleet street, London, to… 2 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol. 2 2 exemplaires
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 8 2 exemplaires
Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights… (2011) 2 exemplaires
Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, vol. 3 : With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory 1 exemplaire
Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, vol. 1 : With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory 1 exemplaire
Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, vol. 2 : With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory 1 exemplaire
Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, vol. 6 : With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory 1 exemplaire
Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, vol. 4 : With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory 1 exemplaire
Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, vol. 5 : With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory 1 exemplaire
Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights… (2011) 1 exemplaire
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night; III & IV 1 exemplaire
Meine Wallfahrt nach Medina und Mekka 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Vol. 2) 1 exemplaire
Supplemental Nights to the book of the Thousand Nights and a Day notes anthropological and explanatory; Volume VIII. 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night: a plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,… 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night: a plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,… 1 exemplaire
Classics Illustrated: Arabian Nights 1 exemplaire
Arabian Nights (Volume 10) 1 exemplaire
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in Asia and Africa (2002) 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 7 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night: a plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,… 1 exemplaire
The Pentameron of Giambattista Basile 1 exemplaire
Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights… 1 exemplaire
The Book of a Thousands Nights and Night 6 vol 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night volume 8 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night volume 7 1 exemplaire
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS, THE SECOND VOLUME, & NOTES ON THE SECOND VOLUME, IN TWO VOLUMES. 1 exemplaire
THE COMPLETE ARABIAN NIGHTS (ILLUSTRATED): THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT (2016) 1 exemplaire
Yahudi, Çingene ve Müslümanlar Üzerine Bir İnceleme 1853-1891;Binbir Gece Masalları'nın… (2024) 1 exemplaire
Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El_Medinah and Meccah 1 exemplaire
The Ananga Ranga 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand and One Arabian Nights 1 exemplaire
Bilješke o Istri 1 exemplaire
Arabian Nights. Transl Richard Burton. 1 exemplaire
Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,(A) now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights… 1 exemplaire
Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Seven volumes [Vol. 2 missing] 1 exemplaire
The Arabian nights , vol II 1 exemplaire
The Life of Sir Richard Burton (2 Volumes in 1) 1 exemplaire
The Book of thousand nights and a night 1 exemplaire
Mystery of the Sacred Shroud 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 04 1 exemplaire
The Kasidah of haji Abdu El-Yezdi. c.1 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 11 1 exemplaire
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Collector's Edition Bound in Genuine Leather (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written) 1 exemplaire
The Pop-Up Kama Sutra 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 10 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 08 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night - A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments:… 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 07 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 06 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 05 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 03 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 02 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 09 1 exemplaire
Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah. In three volumes. [Vol. 3] 1 exemplaire
1001 Nights, vol 09 (trans. Richard Francis Burton) 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night -- Volumes Three and Four: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian… (2020) 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 12 1 exemplaire
The Land of Midian 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Night and One Night -- Volumes Five and Six: A Clear and Literal Translation of the Arabian… 1 exemplaire
Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines. Also, Canoeing down… (2002) 1 exemplaire
The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night - Volume 6 (Annotated) (2016) 1 exemplaire
Arabian Nights (Volume 13) 1 exemplaire
The Lake Regions of Central Africa 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 16 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 15 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 14 1 exemplaire
Viagens aos planaltos do Brasil 1 exemplaire
The Sotadic Zone 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night. Book 13 1 exemplaire
The Search for the Source of the Nile 1 exemplaire
A Pilgramage to El-Medinah and Meccah 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
The Arabian Nights, Volume I: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights: 1 (Signet Classics) 1 exemplaire
Burton's Reisen Nach Medina Und Mekka Und in Das Somaliland Nach Härrär in Ost-Afrika (German Edition) (2012) 1 exemplaire
The 2nd Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor 1 exemplaire
The book of the thousand nights and a night A plain and literal translation of The arabian nights entertainments Volume… (2015) 1 exemplaire
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night VOLUME IV: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 1 exemplaire
Märchen aus tausend und einer Nacht 1 exemplaire
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night VOLUME III: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 1 exemplaire
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night. VOLUME II: 1885 "Burton Club" edition, illustrated (2017) 1 exemplaire
THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night. VOLUME I: 1885 (London "Burton Club" edition), illustrated (2017) 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Annotated) (Arabian Nights) (Volume 8) (2016) 1 exemplaire
The book of the Thousand nights and a night : a plain and literal transl. of the Arabian nights entertainments; with… 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Annotated) (Arabian Nights) (Volume 3) (2016) 1 exemplaire
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Burton's Arabian Nights) 10 Volumes Complete Set (1885) 1 exemplaire
Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and… (2012) 1 exemplaire
The Complete Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: Complete Edition 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
Supplemental Nights: To The Book of The Thousand And One Nights With Notes Anthropological And Explanatory Volume Six 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 16 (Volume 16) 1 exemplaire
The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions : With Illustrations, and Intineraries of the Principal… (2018) 1 exemplaire
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night. Vol 3 & 4 1 exemplaire
Supplemental Nights: To The Book of The Thousand And One Nights With Notes Anthropological And Explanatory Volume Two 1 exemplaire
The book of The Thousand Nights and A Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments… 1 exemplaire
A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments now entituled The Book of the Thousand… (2010) 1 exemplaire
Collected Works of Sir Richard Francis Burton 1 exemplaire
Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. vol. 1/2 1 exemplaire
Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. vol. 2/2 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Burton, Richard Francis
- Nom légal
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis
- Autres noms
- El-Yezdi, Haji Abdu (pseudonym)
Sir Richard Burton - Date de naissance
- 1821-03-19
- Date de décès
- 1890-10-20
- Lieu de sépulture
- St Mary Magdalen Church, Mortlake, London, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Torquay, Devon, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Trieste, Austria-Hungary
- Cause du décès
- heart attack
- Lieux de résidence
- Tours, France
Trieste, Austria-Hungary
Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UK - Études
- University of Oxford (Trinity College)
- Professions
- explorer
translator
geographer
writer
soldier
orientalist (tout afficher 7)
diplomat - Relations
- Burton, Isabel (wife)
Stisted, Georgiana M. (niece) - Organisations
- East India Company
Anthropological Society of London - Prix et distinctions
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (1908)
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (1886)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society - Courte biographie
- Sir Richard Francis Burton 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages.
Burton's best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after early translations of Antoine Galland's French version); the publication of the Kama Sutra in English; a translation of The Perfumed Garden, the Arab Kama Sutra; and a journey with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.
His works and letters extensively criticised colonial policies of the British Empire, even to the detriment of his career. Although he aborted his university studies, he became a prolific and erudite author and wrote numerous books and scholarly articles about subjects including human behaviour, travel, falconry, fencing, sexual practices and ethnography. A characteristic feature of his books is the copious footnotes and appendices containing remarkable observations and information. William Henry Wilkins wrote: "So far as I can gather from all I have learned, the chief value of Burton’s version of The Scented Garden lay not so much in his translation of the text, though that of course was admirably done, as in the copious notes and explanations which he had gathered together for the purpose of annotating the book. He had made this subject a study of years. For the notes of the book alone he had been collecting material for thirty years, though his actual translation of it only took him eighteen months."
Burton was a captain in the army of the East India Company, serving in India, and later briefly in the Crimean War. Following this, he was engaged by the Royal Geographical Society to explore the east coast of Africa, where he led an expedition guided by locals and was the first European known to have seen Lake Tanganyika. In later life, he served as British consul in Fernando Pó (now Bioko, Equatorial Guinea), Santos in Brazil, Damascus (Ottoman Syria) and finally in Trieste. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was awarded a knighthood in 1886.
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- Œuvres
- 405
- Aussi par
- 24
- Membres
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- Popularité
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- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 86
- ISBN
- 514
- Langues
- 14
- Favoris
- 1
Burton a donc choisi de se déguiser afin de faire ce voyage en toute liberté et pouvoir explorer ces régions qui étaient quasi-inconnues en occident. Il a été capable de se faire passer pour un afghan grâce à la connaissance de leurs coutumes et de leur langue qu'il avait acquise dans son service en Inde.
Ce qui m'a fascinée dans ce livre, c'est la capacité de Burton à s'intégrer dans une culture radicalement différente de la sienne sans éveiller les soupçons : loin d'avoir fait son pélerinage en hermite sans parler à personne, il a voyagé en groupe depuis le Caire jusqu'à Médine, puis en caravane de Médine à la Mecque, a rencontré tout un tas de monde en chemin, s'est fait des copains avec qui il faisait des blagues de potache, a exercé la profession de médecin pendant tout son voyage, ....
Son récit n'est pas exempt de quelques stéréotypes raciaux qui devaient être beaucoup plus communs à l'époque que maintenant (tel peuple est fier et courageux, ce qui se voit à la forme de leur nez et de leurs pommettes, tel autre peuple est vil ce qui se voit à leur front ou leurs yeux, tel autre peuple encore a tel et tel trait de caractère qui se voit à telle ou telle particularité physique), mais dans l'ensemble sa capacité d'intégration me semble démontrer une très grande ouverture et tolérance pour les autres cultures.
J'ai adoré tous les passages où il décrit les particularités de la culture orientale auxquelles il est quotidiennement confronté, et apprécié encore plus les passages où il décrit ses efforts pour avoir l'air oriental.
Le livre par contre a de nombreuses longueur : le but de Burton était en effet de faire un compte-rendu le plus détaillé possible de tout ce qu'il avait vu et fait, il y a donc de nombreuses et longues descriptions géographiques, ainsi que des descriptions détaillées des villes, des mosquées, et même des prières faites dans les mosquées qui sont rapportées littéralement. J'ai donc survolé rapidement ou même sauté beaucoup de ces passages, afin de me consacrer aux moments les plus savoureux, ce qui m'a permis de passer de très agréables moments avec ce livre.… (plus d'informations)