Pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah [Christmas Summary Classics]

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference

• Author: Sir Richard Burton
• ISBN: 1230000037105
• Publisher: Zhingoora Books
• Publication: December 6, 2012
• Language: English

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SIR RICHARD BURTON
Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah
I.—The Pilgrim Ship
Sir Richard F. Burton, K.C.M.G., was born at Barham House, Hertfordshire, England, March 19, 1821. He was intended for the Church, and spent a year at Oxford; but showed no clerical leanings, and found a more congenial profession when he obtained a cadetship in the Indian Army in 1842. During the next few years he acquired an extraordinary knowledge of Mohammedan usages and languages that was afterwards to serve him in good stead. In 1849 he returned to England; in 1851 published three books on Indian subjects, and in April, 1853, set forth on his cherished and daring project of visiting in disguise the sacred cities of Islam. The voyage was a particularly dangerous one, Burton frequently having to defend his life, though in so doing he never took another life during the whole of the journey. The account of his "Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah" was published in 1855. Afterwards he travelled in Somaliland, Central Africa, North and South America, and elsewhere, and unfailingly published books on his journeys. He died at Trieste on October 20, 1890.