Miscellaneous

The Richard Burton Medal . Information from the Royal Asiatic Society "for the encouragement of the study of the religions, history, character, languages and customs of Eastern races."

Web Archive: Creative quotations from Isabel Burton and bemorecreative.com (from one of literature's most destructive women...)

Web Archive: "Astrocartography" of Burton by Robert Couteau.

Testosterone.com fanmail answers the burning question: "which historic figure had the biggest balls?" Burton, of course.

Discussion

Sir Richard F. Burton on the Web Discussion Board. I've finally set up a discussion board. Let's get some topics going! On-site

Looking for Scholars of Sir Richard Burton and/or the Arabian Nights post by Jon Noring on the alt.hindu newsgroup.

Travel

Web Archive: "www.burtonandspeke.com" on their expedition, currently in progress (if the June 1 - August 30, 2000 date hasn't slipped). Full of images, historical and natural.

Web Archive: Learn about an expedition to retrace the Burton/Speke expedition from Outdoors Gazette.

LibraryThing: Catalog your books online.

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