The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World
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November 30, 2005: "Sir Richard Burton, one of the most intriguing figures of Victorian Era Great Britain, who was a daring adventurer, prolific writer, prodigious linguist and translator of "The Arabian Nights" and "Kama Sutra," was the subject of a book talk at the Library of Congress. Historian Dane Kennedy discussed his new book "The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World." The program was sponsored by the Center for the Book as part of the Books & Beyond series."
Center for the Book: www.loc.gov/cfb
(2005) The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/webcast-383
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A highly fascinating man, if ever was one, a brilliant lecture, and a book by Mr. Dane Kennedy that must deserve a reading
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I want to know more about Burtons communications with Gratton Geary. Geary was my great grandfather
Thank you so much for not showing us the photographs of the subject, watching the lecturer talk was much more instructive.
Great lecture. Great man. Thank you.
Thank you for helping Americans LEARN!❤
Richard Burton was like a Victorian mix of Johnny Sins and Alan Quatermain
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Please upload ghis again in better quality ❤
The audio is quite bad.
Why discuss the photograph if we are not able to see it
could he have been a Sufi. See "The Sufis" by Idries Shah.
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He disguised as a sufi on his pilgrimage to Mecca
Burton was the most interesting man of his time, he went out found how the other side lived and examined it well. I was raised a Catholic and when I was 45 went to Pakistan to find out about Islam where I embraced the religion and became a Muslim. I too wanted to see how the rest of the world lived and worshipped. I have a portrait of Burton in my living room. I don't like the way his wife lined his final resting place with all that Catholic chotskies .[hope my spelling is correct] after all the man really never embraced religion except for Islam for a time. What is my mystery about Burton, is why did he ever marry Isabel.
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Towards the end of his life, the religion he ended up embracing was a deep and virulent antisemitism
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My portrait of Burton is in the dining room
In arabic the word for travel is "safar" which is to open up especially when one is away from home comforts...so the civilized man caption would be his way of saying "LOOK" at me now how civilized I am, his discovery of human contrast left him questioning himself and who he really was deep down inside, which is feeble and weak as god says we created man weak.