The man was pure genius and he knew it, I have read six books about him and still can't get enough. In 2017 I even went into parts of Pakistan where Burton traveled. I only wish I was born in the 1800's so I could have met him, we might have changed history for the better.
@williamaltimari4193 Жыл бұрын
Beautifully said.
@mikebeatty78144 жыл бұрын
Burton has no equal. My hero since I was a young boy. His gift for linguistics have given the western world the treasures of the east. His toughness and bravery are legendary. It is almost hard to look at him as a mere mortal.
@LordGreystoke9 жыл бұрын
The man was extraordinary. Just finished a biography of him. Wow. An explorer and renaissance man; one of the greatest linguists of his time and instrumental in the creation of the then burgeoning field of anthropology. A true intellect.
@user-om8rj2ub1g4 жыл бұрын
How do you know him ?
@jojones46853 жыл бұрын
Also a man once described as byronic
@archer194910 жыл бұрын
One of my personal heroes.
@PAULLONDEN10 жыл бұрын
What a life.
@croningw8 жыл бұрын
I recently read a book called Sindh Revisited: In the footsteps of Sir Richard F Burton. Tells the story of his travels into the interior of Sindh, India (Now Pakistan). A really funny incident occurred when he was in Goa, India and fell in love with a nun from a local convent. They decided to elope and on the night of the planned escape, Sir Richard broke into the said convent, picked up the nun, his lover, as she lay half asleep and began to run out of the convent. The nun began screaming in his arms; and this is when he realized that it was the MOTHER SUPERIOR: He picked up the wrong nun. Dropping the stunned Mother Superior right there, he ran out of the convent, empty handed never to see his lover again. Ooh so funny.
@user-om8rj2ub1g4 жыл бұрын
Do you have his books ?
@mickey260013 жыл бұрын
And then she turned around and burnt his nearly entire lifetime collection of journals and writings in a bonfire right after his death, an unimaginable loss to the world..that can never be replaced or rediscovered
@nikhilmohile7300 Жыл бұрын
Very true
@mohammadrezarezaei78996 жыл бұрын
lord of explorers,brave man,talented,39 language speaking,swordman,god bless him,
@MrSeekerOfPeace9 жыл бұрын
With his magnificent war wound and dashing moustache, this man has been from Mecca to America all for the name of exploration and to study other cultures. I wish I had his talent for picking up languages. It is said he kept notes on the genitals of every local tribe he ran across. Lol. Amazing Only a genius and anthropological revolutionary would even bother with the sexual practices of the new and exotic lands they explored.
@ZeuzBluez12 жыл бұрын
such a great man , great richie, thanks for sharing
@hasonraja104111 жыл бұрын
One of the best quotes I read.
@waltimari12 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comments. The music is from the movie THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS by the late, great Jerry Goldsmith.
@813Ellen13 жыл бұрын
Mine too, those eyes so piercing........because of him I became enamoured with Arabia. In 1988 came to work in Jeddah and followed Burton's route towards Mekkah. and onto Medina through the volcanic field......very barren. That was 22 years ago I am still in the Arabia Peninsular......
@SirBranco7713 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest Explorers of all time! I tried to find his house in Sallahiye, Damascus, just a month ago.
@user-om8rj2ub1g4 жыл бұрын
His house in the town of Salihia in Damascus, I'm from Iraq
@dunedainrangers13097 жыл бұрын
The man!
@1tommcandrew12 жыл бұрын
This is really great. I love the music you used for this video. It suits Burton perfectly I think. Can you tell me what it is or where you found it? Thanks.
@stefanoantonaglia82548 жыл бұрын
il piu grande esploratore di sempre.
@erika76748 жыл бұрын
He spoke 25 languages, not including dialects.
@alkantre13 жыл бұрын
THIS GUY IS MY HERO
@kpadmirer13 жыл бұрын
At 2:18 Lady Burton is saying, "Now, Richard, don't write any more dirty stories!"
@emmy1cat12 жыл бұрын
One tough SOB. The Somali's were story enough for one man, but not for Burton.
@aurora88889 Жыл бұрын
Pour mr aberkane
@itierney11 жыл бұрын
Wow. This video uses ALL the wipes.
@PhilJonesIII9 жыл бұрын
A man that could not stay still in body or his head. His approach to learning anything was obsessive and his writings show this. His 'canoe' ride down the Sao Francisco was supposed to be some kind of holiday yet his observations and analysis suggest he hardly slept. How he found time to write such detailed notes is beyond me.
@worldofwarcraftman28 жыл бұрын
+Philip Jones where there's a will there's a way and humanity pumps out oddities look up real humans with real superpowers
@albussd6 жыл бұрын
Philip Jones Truly a badass. Do you know of any other similar personalities? I want to know more about these kinds of people.
@C4MPB311111 жыл бұрын
I'm related to him too man , and i also like kush...coincidence?
@TaletownOrg10 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this great clip. We used it in our story "Sir Richard Francis Burton" taletown.org/stories/people-places/150-sir-richard-francis-burton
@vancetrigger5 жыл бұрын
extordinary man
@AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible11 жыл бұрын
Hello, it's very uncultured to SHOUT. So please tell me how you would have preferred it to go ? The west had made the moral, technological and intellectual advances while the Aztecs were performing human sacrifice and the Africans enslaving one another. All sudden cultural changes are accompanied by suffering and drama. Do you think the Africans would have done any less if they had developed guns first ? Moors in Spain ? Violence is a characteristic of some humans not just Western old chap.
@mmalha11 жыл бұрын
I was told that in one of his books he declared that he and his wife became Muslims . Is that true?
@SighKronmiller7 жыл бұрын
mmalha I believe it was only him. A Imam I believe.