The Life Of Captain Sir Richd F Burton K C M G F R G S Vol 1 Of 2 Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton, K. C. M. G., F. R. G. S, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Isabel Burton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton, K. C. M. G., F. R. G. S, Vol. 1 of 2 IN speaking of my husband, I shall not call him Sir Richard, or Burton, as many wives would nor yet by the pet name I used for him at home, which for some reason which I cannot explain was Jemmy nor yet what he was generally called at home, and what his friends called him, Dick but I will call him Richard in speaking of him, and I where he speaks on his own account, as he does in his private journals. I always thought and told him that he destroyed much of the interest of his works by hardly ever alluding to himself, and now that I mention it, people may remark it, that in writing he seldom uses the pronoun I. I have therefore drawn, not from his books, but from his private journals. It was one of his asceticisms, an act of humility, which the world passed by, and probably only thought one of his eccentricities. In his works he would generally speak of himself as the Ensign, the Traveller, the Explorer, the Consul, and so on, so that I often think that people who are not earnest readers never understood it was that did this, thought that, or saw the other. If I make him speak plainly for himself, as he does in his private journals, but never to the public, it will give twenty times the interest in relating events; so I shall throughout let him speak for himself where I can. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.