Goa, and the Blue Mountains; Or, Six Months of Sick Leave

Published in 1851, this book was the first written by the famed Victorian explorer Richard Burton. It is an account of his journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick leave from the British Indian Army.

About the author

Richard F. Burton was a noted nineteenth-century British explorer, best known for discovering the source of the Nile. Dane Kennedy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and the author of Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Rhodesia, 1890-1939 (Duke 1987).

Summary

An account of the author's journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick leave from the British Indian army. It provides a look at the people who inhabited a part of India that was generally off the beaten track in the nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Richard F. Burton, Richard Francis Burton, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Burton Richard F., Dane Kennedy
• Assisted by: Dane Kennedy (Introduction)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.1991
• EAN: 9780520076112
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07611-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia, India, Literary essays, Classic Travel Writing