Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah by Richard Burton fat with a print of Woolsthorpe

with a print of Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire (its original location) on the inner lid

Inscribed below: 'Bradley

'Waterloo Bridge

wearing a dark suit with a white neck cloth

General views of London

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah by Richard Burton fat with a print of WoolsthorpeFrontispiece to Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah by Richard Burton, 1855. Richard Francis Burton's (1821 1890) extensive travels included a journey to Mecca, which he made disguised as a Pathan. His account of the journey, which he made in 1851 1853, made him famous. He later undertook an expedition to locate the source of the Nile, with John Hanning Speke. He also translated the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra into