Wanderings in Three Continents

Allen & Co. Ph. Sc.
Richard F. Burton الحاج عبداله
BY THE LATE
EDITED, WITH A PREFACE, BY W. H. WILKINS, M.A. , F.S.A. EDITOR OF THE BURTON MSS. AND AUTHOR OF “THE ROMANCE OF ISABEL LADY BURTON,” ETC.
WITH A PHOTOGRAVURE PORTRAIT AND
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. D. MᶜCORMICK
London: HUTCHINSON & CO
Paternoster Row
1901

BURTON was a many-sided man. The following volume of posthumous essays reveals him in the aspect in which he was best known to the world—​as a traveller and explorer. It will add comparatively little to the knowledge of the Burton student; to the general reader it will contain much that is new, for though Burton wrote and published many bulky volumes of travel in years gone by, none of them assumed a popular form, and it may be doubted if any, save his “Pilgrimage to Meccah and El Medinah,” reached the outer circle of the great reading public. Most of his books are now out of copyright, many are out of print, and few are easily obtainable. This volume, therefore, will supply a need, in that it gives in a popular form a consensus of his most important travels in three continents. It will also, I hope, remind his countrymen of the achievements of this remarkable man, and bring home to many a deeper sense of what we have lost in him. This was the view taken by Lady Burton, who had hoped to