Richard Francis Burton - Works

Works

• Goa and the Blue Mountains (1851)
• Scinde or the Unhappy Valley (1851)
• Sindh and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus (1851)
• Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (1852)
• A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise (1853)
• Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah 3 Vols. (1855-6). See also PDF facsimile
• First Footsteps in East Africa (1856). See also PDF Facsimile .
• The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa (1859)
• The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860)
• The City of the Saints, Among the Mormons and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (1861)
• Wanderings in West Africa (1863)
• Abeokuta and the Cameroon Mountains (1863)
• A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahomé (1864)
• The Nile Basin (1864) With James McQueen.
• Wit and Wisdom From West Africa (1865)
• Stone Talk (1865)
• The Guide-book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina (1865).
• Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil (1869)
• Letters From the Battlefields of Paraguay (1870)
• Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry (1870). See also PDF Facsimile.
• Unexplored Syria (1872)
• Zanzibar (1872)
• Ultima Thule (1872)
• The Lands of Cazembe. Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798 (1873). Edited and translated by Burton.
• The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse, in A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil. Translated by Albert Tootal and annotated by Richard F. Burton.
• A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry (1876)
• Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo (1876) See also PDF Facsimile.
• Etruscan Bologna (1876)
• Sind Revisited (1877)
• The Gold Mines of Midian (1878)
• The Land of Midian (revisited) (1879)
• Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads) (two volumes 1880)
• The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (1880). See also PDF Facsimile.
• A Glance at the Passion-Play (1881).
• To the Gold Coast for Gold 2 Vols. (1883). See also PDF Facsimile.
• The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (1883) (with F. F. Arbuthnot).
• Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads (1883)
• Camoens. The Lyricks 2 Vols (1884)
• The Book of the Sword (1884)
• The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (ten volumes 1885)
• The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi (1886)
• The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night (six volumes 1886 – 1888)
• The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam (1898)
• The Sentiment of the Sword: A Country-House Dialogue (1911)

Burton also wrote a great number of journal and magazine pieces, many of which have never been catalogued. Over 200 of these have been collected in PDF facsimile format at burtoniana.org.

Brief selections from a variety of Burton's writings are available in Frank McLynn's Of No Country: An Anthology of Richard Burton (1990; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons).