Sir Richard Francis Burton: Commentary, Research, Criticism.


Carte Visite by Ernest Edwards circa 1875.

Brodie, Fawn M.
1970.  "Sir Richard F. Burton: Exceptional Observer of the Mormon Scene." Utah Historical Quarterly 38(4): 295-311.

Bishop, M. Guy.
1994.  "The Saints and the Captain: The Mormons Meet Richard F. Burton." Journal of the West 33(4): 28-35.

Carnochan, W. B.
2006.   The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, And the Nile; Or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?: Looking at the Evidence. Stanford University Press.

Casada, James A.
1990.  Sir Richard F. Burton.  A Biobibliographical Study. G. K. Hall & Co., Boston.

Casari, Burke E.
2005.  Burton, Richard F. A Bibliography of Contributions to Select Indian Newspapers.  West Vancouver Voyager Press Books 0-9736790-0-X

Cordiviola, Alfredo
2001. Richard Burton: A Traveller in Brazil, 1865-1868 Edwin Mellen Press.

Godsall, Jon R.
1993.    "Fact and Fiction in Richard Burton's Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (1855-56)".  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland .  Series 3.  3(3): 331-351.
2001.    "Richard Burton's Somali Expedition, 1854-55: Its Wider Historical Context and Planning."   Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland .  Series 3.  11(2): 135-73.

Jutzi, Alan H. ed.
1993.    In Search of Sir Richard Burton: Papers from a Huntington Library Symposium.  Huntington Library, California.

Nurse, Donald Paul
1982.  Burton and Speke: an enquiry into the nature and causes of the Nile controversy.  MA Thesis, University of Waterloo, Canada.
1999.  An amateur barbarian: the life and career of Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1821-1890.  PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, Canada.

Penzer, Norman
1923.  An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton K.C.M.G.  A. M. Philpot, London.  Reprints by Burt Franklin, New York: 1970; and Martino Publishing, 1997.

Rainy, William
1865.  The Censor Censured, or the Calumnies of Captain Burton. London, Geo. Chalfont.

Symons, Arthur
1923.  Dramatis Personae.  Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill.
"A Neglected Genius: Sir Richard Burton".

Vincent, Andrew.
1985.  "The Jew, The Gipsy and El-Islam: An Examination of Richard Burton's Consulship in Damascus and His Premature Recall, 1868-1871."  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland  (2): 155-173.

Wilson, Laura Foster.
1975.  "Richard Burton Visits the City of the Saints."  American West 12(1): 4-9.

Young, Donald and Quentin Keynes. 1999. The Search for the Source of the Nile: Correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and others.  The Roxburghe Club: London.