Бёртон, Ричард Фрэнсис: различия между версиями

Comments: The Devil Drives; Adventurer; Freemason; geographer; ethnographer; explorer; translator; writer; soldier; orientalist; cartographer; spy; linguist; poet; fencer; diplomat; restless soul in Victorian Britain; awarded a knighthood (KCMG) in 1886; "Do what thy manhood bids thee do/ from none but self expect applause;/ He noblest lives and noblest dies/ who makes and keeps his self-made laws" from The Kasidah; sex magick; Tantra;

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton; Brodie, Fawn M. (1967). The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton; http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a898; listen to him here - http://librivox.org/author/3163 and don't miss http://librivox.org/the-perfumed-garden-by-sheikh-nefzaoui/; read his Kama Sutra here - http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/index.htm, and while not sure if it is his translation, but you can listen to the Kama Sutra here - http://librivox.org/author/1248 ; http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/arts/william-harrison-79-novelist-and-rollerball-writer-dies.html?hpw ; read his Vampire tale here - http://www.sacred-texts.com/goth/vav/index.htm ; read the THE KASÎDAH OF HÂJÎ ABDÛ EL-YEZDÎ here - http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/kas/index.htm; and Af Laylah wa Laylah here - http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/burt1k1/index.htm ;