Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah by Richard Burton fat Plate 3 from A Description

Plate 3 from A Description of the Muscles of the Human Body

wearing a dark suit with a white neck cloth

Inscribed below: 'Bradley

They were drawn away at Carlisle United

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah by Richard Burton fat Plate 3 from A DescriptionFrontispiece 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