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Lindsay and Madison discuss Sir Richard Francis Burton, as well as why it's wrong to wear brown face, that translating erotica from other cultures was supes taboo, and how to be an accomplished man of mystery. Information pulled from the following sources: 2020 Discover Silversea article by Carolyn Spencer Brown 2018 Borges, Desire, and Sex - Chapter 4 - Sir Richard Burton's Orientalist Erotica 2018 The Romance of Lady Isabel Burton, by Isabel Burton 2018 Unexplained Mysteries article by T.K. Randall 2015 FT Magazine Oxford article by Jeremy Paxman 2011 International League of Antiquarian Booksellers article by Raymond John Howgego 1890 The Athenaeum article 1890 Morning Post article BBC History article “The Book of Burtoniana” by Gavan Tredoux Britannica Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton Museum article “First Footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar by Richard Burton Find a Grave Geni Habitats & Heritage article “The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World” by Dane Kennedy House Histree article “The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi” by Richard F. Burton “The Life of Sir Richard Burton” by Thomas Wright Princeton Library article Wikipedia Go check out our friends Courtney and Lisa over at the Book of the Dead podcast. Send us your listener questions to bit.ly/AskYOC. Become a member on Buy Me A Coffee for as little as $1/month to support the show.  Get your groceries and essentials delivered in as fast as 1 hour via Instacart. Free delivery on your first 3 orders. Min $10 per order. Terms apply. You can write to us at: Ye Olde Crime Podcast, PO Box 341, Wyoming, MN 55092. Join the conversation over at the Cultiv8 Discord and join the Olde Crimers Cubby to chat with us and other listeners of the show. Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Spotify, Podcast Addict, Audible, or Goodpods! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Adventure is a fun genre! Not as many things get made for it these days but it used to be hugely popular in the past. It's one of my favourite genres and this is what we're chatting about for the Quackcast. What IS adventure? I think it usually involves a whole lot of different things like exploration, action, discovery, heroic protagonists, rivals, travel, exotic places, fights etc. It can be set in the past or in the modern day. Good examples are The Mummy, Indiana Jones, the original Tomb Raider, the two new Jumanji films, Strange World, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ducktales, Tailspin, Jungle Cruise, Uncharted and so much more. I'd love to know your faves! Adventure stories have a basis in reality, real life explorers like Sir Richard Francis Burton, Marco Polo, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. And from this background there's a negative connotation in the adventure story DNA: because it comes from a world of colonialism and imperialism. Adventure often involves an emissary from the known world in the west going off to the unknown world in the east, Africa, or South America to see exotic places and discover new things, which of course are not exotic or new to the locals that actually live there! But even so I think it has a valid rationale because these things were largely unknown and exotic to the wider community in the west and this was the way they found out about them. Adventure stories also work perfectly well from other perspectives- the adventurer can originate in Africa, China, Polynesia and wherever else and they can be exploring Europe or any other part of the world and it works just as well. No theme from Gunwallace this week because of the holidays, so more best-offs! These are the two themes Gunwallace made for Bottomless Waitress from Quackcasts 423 and 490 - - Theme number one is such a happy sounding, Southern, joyful track, filled with banjo and layers of guitar, twanging away… bringing notes of sunshine, natural wood, the light glinting softly through tree leaves and making dappled shadows on the ground… Perfect for an advertising jingle! - Theme number two: Revenge of the banjo! We start off with a tractor roaring into life and a banjo opening us up to the sounds of rural Midwest America- wide open corn fields, golden wheat, grain silos, quiet back-roads, haystacks, big red barns, and a kinky little diner where the coffee is bottomless and so are the staff! Topics and shownotes Adventure thread - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/179254/ Featured comic: Arkin Blade - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2023/jan/03/featured-comic-arkin-blade/ Featured music: Bottomless Waitress - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Bottomless_Waitress/ - by Ozoneocean and Banes, rated M. Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ VIDEO exclusive! Become a subscriber on the $5 level and up to see our weekly Patreon video and get our advertising perks! - https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck Even at $1 you get your name with a link on the front page and a mention in the weekend newsposts! Join us on Discord - https://discordapp.com/invite/7NpJ8GS

In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses book 17 from his 2022 Reading List – Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought The Arabian Nights to the West by Edward Rice. Show Notes Sir Richard Burton Author: Edward Rice Edward Rice's book about Thomas Merton –... The post Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice appeared first on Books of Titans.

Retro adventure heroes are an interesting and unique sort of hero. The trope was revived and crystallised by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg with Indiana Jones, but it had existed long before then and continues to persist now in many forms. They're not without their problems But I like these characters. I love their outfits, their competency, intelligence, self sufficiency, and their penchant for exploration and discovery. What is a retro adventure hero? Typically they're an adventurer, a member and representative of a powerful Western country, they like exploring, they're self sufficient, they can survive by themselves in the wild, they can fight, understand many languages, have arcane knowledge of and respect for native peoples and different exotic cultures, they tend to be very worldly and highly educated. This trope was inspired by real life examples, typically explorers from the 19th century, foremost among them was Sir Richard Francis Burton. He was highly educated, a soldier, an explorer, a swordsman and a shameless self promoter. With the explorations of Burton we have the romantic idea of a representative of the British Empire and Western civilisation delving into the hidden worlds of the Arab east and darkest Africa. A partial influence for Indiana Jones was the story of GE Kinkaid and his 1909 find of the remains of a fabulous city accessed through a cave in the Grand Canyon… all sponsored by the Smithsonian institute. Of course nothing about the story was true and GE Kinkaid never existed, but it was quite inspiring nonetheless. My own character, Ace Kinkaid, from my comic Pinky TA was based on GE Kinkaid. Instead of going in the Indiana Jones direction of a “true hero” I decided to take a different tack- since the story was clearly made up and quite stupid (obviously designed to fool people), I made Ace Kinkaid someone who wanted to look like a hero but was in reality a con-man, only out for himself. The most important fictional retro adventure hero is H. Rider Haggard's “Allan Quatermain” (I wrongly say he was Edgar Rice Burroughs' character in the Quackcast). He's another huge influence for Indiana Jones. There are many other popular fictional retro adventure heroes though: Brenden Frasier's character in The Mummy, Romancing the Stone, Lara Croft, El Borak, Steve Canyon, Biggles, Bulldog Drummond, John Carter, Dirk Pitt in Sahara, Flashman (though more of an antihero) and many more, even The Rock's character from the recent Jungle Cruise. Why “retro” though and how can contemporary characters like Lara Croft and Dirk Pit be retro? Well there are a few reasons; number one is that they follow the clothing conventions of a lot of brown, leather, and straps; number two is that they have all the right competencies with fighting ability, self sufficiency, a penchant for adventure and exploration, visiting ruins etc, a good education…; number three is that they come from a retro world view of imperialism, so they can be a representative of the “enlightened modern world” going off to “discover” and explore exotic places - which of course aren't exotic or in need of discovery from the point of view of the locals. This trope can still work just as well in a modern setting because we still continue to think like this, but it works best in the 1920s/30s for a couple of reasons: The aesthetic then is perfect, but this was also the end of the old imperial era. It marked the end of the time when we could still imagine representatives from “western civilisation” exploring unknown places, technology was at the highest point for characters of this trope (aeroplanes, machine guns, trains, steamships…), and many of the original adventure heroes were created in this period because we were romantisising the idea of adventure and empire while it was ending. After the second world war scoured the entire globe and the last gasp of the dream of empire was shattered, the far reaches of the earth no longer seemed exotic anymore or to hold the same mystery. Retro adventure heroes had their hey-day in the transition from colonialism to post colonialism. We like them now for the romanticism of the image of what they were and the spirit of adventure and exploration, that's what we emulate rather than the distasteful idea of a colonialist imperial cultural ambassador, tourist, and thief. Do you have a fave retro Adventure hero? If so, who? Do you even like the trope? This week Gunwallace gave us a musical theme to Caveston - Authoritative violin pronounces and directs. A four stringed general deciding the course of action, laying out the battleplan. Electric guitar listens well and leads the squad on a furious audio assault! Storming forth and prevailing in a mighty show of shock and awe. Topics and shownotes Links Featured comic: Caveston - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2022/mar/22/featured-comic-caveston/ Featured music: Caveston - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Caveston/ - by Caveston, rated T. Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean PitFace - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ VIDEO exclusive! 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Topics include Juan Cabrillo, mysteries of old California, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Ambrose Bierce, Napoleon, intelligence operations in the colonial era, Ingersoll Lockwood, Margaretta Todd, esoteric lost history, Joan of Arc and her sacred sword, Excaliber, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, the Godess Hecate, Hypatia, Roman Catholic syncretism, Vodou, "Empire of the Wheel", Catalina Island, Hecate synchronicities, Marco Polo, anomalous maps, Pre-Columbian expeditions from Europe to the Americas, precious metal trading, Sir Francis Drake, the Cham culture and empire, a lost city in the Grand Canyon, an extremely ancient temple, Atlantis in Southeast Asia, lost cities in South America, underwater archeological finds off of Africa, ruins discovered after a tsunami, Randall Carlson, after-effects of the last ice age, California as an island, Queen Calafia, lost waterways, David Childress, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, bones of giants, destruction and suppression of inconvenient artifacts, Graham Hancock, classified storage facilities, ancient high-tech civilizations, Antarctica, the myth of linear progress vs. cyclical conditions, the South Pole ozone hole, John E. Brandenburg and Mars, Knights of Malta, Knights Templar, megaliths, Oak Island, hidden objects, Henry Sinclair, hidden seceret vaults, reality TV, missing artifacts, antikythera mechanism, the Cathars, Constantinople, and much more!

Part 1 of 2. Seriah interviews researcher, writer, scholar, and retired federal investigator Walter Bosley. Topics include Juan Cabrillo, mysteries of old California, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Ambrose Bierce, Napoleon, intelligence operations in the colonial era, Ingersoll Lockwood, Margaretta Todd, esoteric lost history, Joan of Arc and her sacred sword, Excaliber, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, the Godess Hecate, Hypatia, Roman Catholic syncretism, Vodou, "Empire of the Wheel", Catalina Island, Hecate synchronicities, Marco Polo, anomalous maps, Pre-Columbian expeditions from Europe to the Americas, precious metal trading, Sir Francis Drake, the Cham culture and empire, a lost city in the Grand Canyon, an extremely ancient temple, Atlantis in Southeast Asia, lost cities in South America, underwater archeological finds off of Africa, ruins discovered after a tsunami, Randall Carlson, after-effects of the last ice age, California as an island, Queen Calafia, lost waterways, David Childress, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, bones of giants, destruction and suppression of inconvenient artifacts, Graham Hancock, classified storage facilities, ancient high-tech civilizations, Antarctica, the myth of linear progress vs. cyclical conditions, the South Pole ozone hole, John E. Brandenburg and Mars, Knights of Malta, Knights Templar, megaliths, Oak Island, hidden objects, Henry Sinclair, hidden seceret vaults, reality TV, missing artifacts, antikythera mechanism, the Cathars, Constantinople, and much more! This is fascinating conversation on a vast number of subjects! Ths s one not to be missed! - Recap by Vincent Treewell Outro Music by David Wirsig with Black Eyes Download

Richard Francis Burton übersetzte Geschichten aus Tausendundeiner Nacht ins Englische. Er entdeckte den Tanganjika-See und war der erste Europäer, der als Pilger verkleidet nach Mekka reiste.

Er war ein wahrer Weltensammler: Indien, Ägypten, Somalia. Tansania. Niger. Kein Ort war ihm zu weit. Keine Forschungsreise zu abenteuerlich, keine Expedition zu beschwerlich: Sir Richard Francis Burton. Autorin: Andrea Kath

Are vampires giant bats, sparkly bad boys, or the world's greatest storytellers? Join Zac, Bob and renown adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton as they climb into the graveyard, sit under the flaming tree, while the vampire begins spinning his tale.

It took a great deal of courage for Tim Arlon (aka TD Lind) to muster up the courage to ask family friend, Glyn Johns, the legendary producer of such renowned bands as the Rolling Stones and The Who, to produce his most recent record, "Little Mr. Big Man," with former bandmate Screamin' John. Johns' reply was a dream come true for any musician, "What took you so long?" The record was released in October 2019 and was nominated for awards on the Blues charts and was a great record to tour behind, til a pandemic happened. The album is available on iTunes and Spotify and also on Tim and John's website, sjtdl.com (Screamin' John, TD Lind dot com). You can read more with Seamus Morrison's fascinating story in the Spring issue of Ojai Quarterly on OjaiHub.com. Tim talks about the epochal changes in the music industry, from the disambiguation of albums into singles which spread through the early days of iTunes, and the way Spotify's paltry artist reimbursements are forcing working musicians to earn their daily bread through touring. It's been a rough road for artists especially since the cancellation of live performances. Tim also teased us with a secret collaboration with Danny McGaw that he couldn't tell us about but said we should keep our eyes (and ears) open. When he's not working the circuit as a bluesman, Tim looks after Ojai Olive Oil's trees as grove manager, a job he learned after being stranded in the south of France decades ago. A chance encounter at the Ojai Farmers Market happened because Tim heard Alice Asquith speaking French, and from that, he was hired to prune more than 2,000 trees. He now conducts tours, helps Philip Asquith press the olives into the fresh, fruity olive oil for which the place is famed. Olive trees will produce for thousands of years is properly pruned; trees that fed ancient Greeks and Romans are still in production. "I love it, I'm out in the nature the whole time," he said. Even when bears crash into his house. Growing up in an artistic family — his father was a rock-and-roll singer and music publisher and manager (Aretha Franklin and Sheena Easton among them, and is still managing The Kinks) of renown in England, his mother was a working actor — paved the way for Tim to start his first band at age 16. His early influences included Eddie Cochrane and jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt before moving on to Humble Pie and Led Zeppelin. We also talk about finding your own way in music as in life. We didn't get around to talking about English dance hall music, the expeditions of Sir Richard Francis Burton or Robert the Bruce.

Bonus Episode An interview with Torquay museum director Basil Greenwood. Here we discuss the Devon explorer Percy Fawcett from Episode 20. We chat about what kind of man he was and what might have happened to him and his son in the jungles of South America. Torquay museum hold the archive on Fawcett, giving them access to all kinds of in-depth information. If you have not listened to Episode 20 its worth going back and doing so, to get some idea of the man we are speaking about.This recording may require more volume than others depending on your set up.  Fund the museum by clicking hereSupport the show (http://buymeacoff.ee/CurioCharacters)

Season One concludes with this, episode twenty. Lt Col Percy Fawcett "Lost In The Amazon".Fawcett was an explorer of ultra high calibre, the only man who could survive the harsh central Amazon rainforest. Percy Fawcett discovered many new species and brought back wonders to Victorian British scientists and geographers. He shone in Word War I as a soldier of skill and courage, before finally returning the the amazon with his son Jack, aged 22, to seek out a long lost city made of gold. Jack and Percy were never seen again and the theories surrounding there disappearance are pretty wild. Join us for the last episode of season one as we jump into the life of a man so brave, he once shot a 68ft anaconda with a pistol at close range.     Season Two starts in a few weeks!www.curioucharacterspodcast.comwww.trickycider.comSupport the show (http://buymeacoff.ee/CurioCharacters)

Our first episode dives into the life of victorian explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton FRGS. Burton is a curious character almost forgotten by the modern public. He translated the Karma Sutra, Arabian Nights and other noted works. Burton was crucial in helping to find the source of the White Nile and contributed to the exploration of the world. A culturally compassionate man in an age of colonial rule, Burton, it could be argued was one of the few explorers to enjoy learning from other cultures and not just conquering them to claim them for Britain.    Links www.torquaymuseum.org Burton was born in Torquaywww.pom-guitarist.com  Music for the podcastwww.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/burton_sir_richard.shtml BBC history infoSupport the show (http://buymeacoff.ee/CurioCharacters)

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), was an English explorer, scholar, poet, translator, and diplomat and played a part in discovering the source of the River Nile. He is also credited with introducing the West to the Kama Sutra.

Sir Richard Frances Burton always had to be moving to new places and exploring other cultures.He spoke at least 24 different languages and lived an adventurous life, often in the face of danger as he moved from different countries and continents.Come join People Time podcast as we explore the life of this interesting and odd man.

Hola a todas y todos. Aquí estamos, una semana más, con vuestro magazine favorito. Hoy comenzamos con la historia del llamado “Evento Toba” y lo pondremos en relación con los últimos descubrimientos sobre los orígenes de la humanidad Rubén, en su sección mensual “Grandes viajeros”, nos narrará las aventuras de Sir Richard Francis Burton. Por último, Jon nos hablará sobre las verdades, y mentiras, que se esconden tras la obra de Dumas “Los tres mosqueteros”. Esperemos que lo disfrutéis, que comentéis lo que os gusta, y os disgusta, a través de Ivoox, de iTunes, de Google Podcast, de Spotify y de las redes sociales, ya sea twitter, facebook, nuestro grupo en Telegram ("Historiados Podcast") o nuestro blog https://historiadospodcast.wordpress.com/.

Hola a todas y todos. Aquí estamos, una semana más, con vuestro magazine favorito. Hoy comenzamos con la historia del llamado “Evento Toba” y lo pondremos en relación con los últimos descubrimientos sobre los orígenes de la humanidad Rubén, en su sección mensual “Grandes viajeros”, nos narrará las aventuras de Sir Richard Francis Burton. Por último, Jon nos hablará sobre las verdades, y mentiras, que se esconden tras la obra de Dumas “Los tres mosqueteros”. Esperemos que lo disfrutéis, que comentéis lo que os gusta, y os disgusta, a través de Ivoox, de iTunes, de Google Podcast, de Spotify y de las redes sociales, ya sea twitter, facebook, nuestro grupo en Telegram ("Historiados Podcast") o nuestro blog https://historiadospodcast.wordpress.com/.

'This has all the airs and graces of a period piece.' - izer Enjoy the Introduction to Sir Richard Francis Burton's 'Vikram and the Vampire', or 'Tales of Hindu devilry. A nice little dip into the pool for the first episode. What did you think about the story? Let's get talkin'! Holla at me on Insta and/or Twitter @izersocial. Follow the progress on @folksypodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/folksy/message

Protect the precious store of dwindling oxygen in the Gaming Hut as we riff a crew of GMCs for an installation horror scenario. Journey into the History Hut to hear us satisfy Martin Rundkvist’s Patreon backer desire to hear about writer/explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and his wife and literary steward, Isabel. Join us in […]

Books that made us cry. Books that made us mad. Books that inspired us as kids. Books that changed our lives. Books that made us the readers we are today. These are our favourite books of all time! Some of the books mentioned in this podcast: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust —> https://bit.ly/2PRJW1g The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki —> https://bit.ly/2LrNvdP The Arabian Knights by Sir Richard Francis Burton —> https://bit.ly/2CnL8pz Snow by Orhan Pamuk —> https://bit.ly/2EC2Fft Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte —> https://bit.ly/2T5iNKr Robin McKinley —> https://bit.ly/2EDWkkq Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody —> https://bit.ly/2SbTCWa The Princess Bride by William Goldman —> https://bit.ly/2CnoWf8 A Room with a View by EM Forster —> https://bit.ly/2SXzvv5 Howard's End by EM Forster —> https://bit.ly/2R8NNf5 Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie —> https://bit.ly/2rNigB4 Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers —> https://bit.ly/2PPuN0p Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky —> https://bit.ly/2EDZeW7 The Only Story by Julian Barnes —> https://bit.ly/2SgPJzD Host: John Purcell Guests: Sarah McDuling, Ben Hunter and Robert O'Hearn

We talk with Walter Bosley on his book "Secret Missions II: The Lost Expedition of Sir Richard Francis Burton", which, if you haven't read it...go read it.Right now. We'll wait. .... .... Done? Ah yes, you have the classic "omg my mind is blown" facial expression. Good. We talk about that mind blowing book in this episode, and more.For those who have seen the movie "The Lost City of Z" about the adventures of Col. Percy Fawcett, this is like that, only more. And before. Basically, the stuff in that movie happened because of the stuff in Bosley's book.You can find Walter Bosley on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at @WBBosley. His books are available on lulu. He also has a blog called Empire of the Wheel (which has the same background as our website--the man has good taste).Brothers of the Serpent Episode 079 

This week on StoryWeb: James Holman’s book The Narrative of a Journey. For Jim, in honor of his birthday In 2007, my husband, Jim, and I heard about Jason Roberts’s book, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler. It sounded fascinating: a biography of a British naval officer who completely lost his sight at age 25 and then proceeded to travel around the world – and in the most exotic and, often, dangerous places. Born in 1786, James Holman rose to the rank of lieutenant in the British Royal Navy. When he fell ill and lost his sight in 1825, he was forced to give up his career as a naval officer. But in his time with the navy, he had been bitten by the travel bug – and travel became his life’s quest ever after. In 1832, he became the first blind person to circumnavigate the globe. Our favorite expedition found Holman at the edge of the world’s most famous live volcano – Mount Vesuvius. As I read Roberts’s biography aloud (a way we sometimes share books), I could barely make it through this scene – it was that hair-raising! I could not imagine myself – a sighted person – going to the very precipice of a live volcano, yet here was 19th-century blind James Holman pushing the envelope about as far as anyone could. Holman was a sensation in his time, and deservedly so. As one source says, “In a time when blind people were thought to be almost totally helpless, and usually given a bowl to beg with, Holman's ability to sense his surroundings by the reverberations of a tapped cane or horse's hoof-beats was unfathomable.” Roberts’s biography of Holman is a great way into the story of this extraordinary man’s life – and if you want a peak into the book, visit Roberts’s website. You can also listen to NPR’s story on A Sense of the World. If you’re hungry for more, you might want to check out Holman’s books. The Narrative of a Journey is available on Google Books, and the first volume of A Voyage Round the World is available at Project Gutenberg. Unfortunately, Holman’s life came to a sad end. Pensioned as a member of the Naval Knights of Windsor, he was required to live at Windsor Castle. Sounds grand, I know, but the reality was far different from what you might suppose. The accommodations were meager at best, and Holman – who longed to travel – chafed at the requirement that he live at Windsor Castle and attend religious services twice a day. He frequently applied for leaves of absence from his Windsor Castle duties and was granted such leaves from time to time, but not nearly as often as he desired. This active, still vital man hated to be confined to one place. Jason Roberts, Holman’s biographer, sums up his legacy this way: He was known simply as the Blind Traveler – a solitary, sightless adventurer who fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the Australian outback. Once a celebrity, a bestselling author and inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the charismatic, witty James Holman outlived his fame, dying in . . . obscurity [in 1857]. . . . Jim and I are thrilled that Roberts has worked so hard to resurrect interest in Holman’s extraordinary life. Whether you read The Narrative of a Journey, A Voyage Round the World, or A Sense of the World, you’ll be inspired by all that is possible for human beings who dare to tackle the impossible! Visit thestoryweb.com/holman for links to all these resources. Listen now as I read an excerpt from James Holman’s 1822 book, The Narrative of a Journey. In this scene, Holman tells of going to the very edge of Mount Vesuvius.   We proceeded along a fair road, until we arrived at a house about half way to the hermitage, where we rested a short time, and refreshed ourselves with wine and water; after this the road gradually became worse, so that if I had not, on former occasions, witnessed the astonishing powers of asses and mules, I should have conceived it impossible for them to have advanced along it. We reached the hermitage about half after eight o’clock, and at the suggestion of our guide, recruited ourselves with some of the hermit’s bread and wine; and then began the more arduous part of our journey. The road soon became very soft, being constituted of the light dust which had been thrown out from the crater; interspersed, however, with large and sharp stones, ejected from the same source; some of which were of such immense size, that did we not bear in mind the astonishing powers of elementary fire, we could scarcely credit the possibility of such masses being hurled to this distance, from out of the bowels of the mountain. One of the greatest inconveniences I found in this ascent, was from the particles of ashes insinuating themselves within my shoes, and which annoyed my feet so much, that I was repeatedly compelled to take them off, in order to get rid of the irritating matter. Hence I would recommend future travellers to ascend in white leathern boots. At length we reached the only part of the mountain, which was at this time in a burning state, and which was throwing out flames and sulphurous vapour; when the guide taking me by the arm, conducted me over a place where the fire and smoke issued from apertures between the stones we walked upon, and which we could hear crackling under our feet every instant as if they were going to be separated, and to precipitate us into the bowels of the mountain. The sublime description of Virgil did not fail to occur to my recollection. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames lick the sky; Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And shiver d from their force come piecemeal down. Oft liquid fires of burning sulphur glow, Nurs’d by the fiery spring that burns below. My imagination, I admit, was actively alive to the possible accidents which might have occurred; I followed, however, with all the confidence which my conviction of being under the care of a cautious leader, did not fail to inspire. My guide appeared highly gratified with the incident, asserting that it was the first time one deprived of sight had ever ventured there; and adding, that he was sure it would much surprise the king, when the circumstance became known to him, in the report which is daily made of the persons who visit the mountain The ground was too hot under our feet, and the sulphurous vapour too strong to allow of our remaining long in this situation; and when he thought he had given us a sufficient idea of the nature of this part of the mountain, we retired to a more solid and a cooler footing; previous to which, however, he directed my walking-cane towards the flames, which shrivelled the ferrule, and charred the lower part; – this I still retain as a memorial. From hence we were conducted to the edge of a small crater, now extinguished, from whence about two months before, the Frenchman, desirous of the glory of dying a death worthy of the great nation, plunged into the fiery abyss. The guide placed my hand on the very spot where he was stated to have last stood, before he thus rashly entered upon eternity. I was anxious to have proceeded up the cone to the border of the superior and large crater, but our guide objected, indeed refused to conduct us to it, unless we awaited the dawn of morning; the moon, he said, was fast descending, so that we should be involved in darkness before we could attain it; and that consequently it would be attended with risk in the extreme to make the attempt. This was a check to the completion of my anxious wishes, but our arrangements at Naples neither made it convenient to my friend, or myself, to remain until morning; nor would it have been pleasant to have spent some hours here without refreshment, more particularly as I had left my coat behind near the hermitage, and at this elevation we found it extremely cold. After spending a short time in examining some of the immense masses of calcined rock, many of them forming solid cubes of twenty feet diameter, and which had been at different times thrown out by the volcanic power; we began to retrace our steps towards the hermitage, distant, as our guide informed us, four miles, but which must have been an over-rated estimate. As we approached this latter place, we met a party ascending the mountain, with an intention of waiting the break of day, so as to enable them to reach the very summit.  

Sir Richard Francis Burton , explorador, aventurero, traductor, fue un experto orientalista. Hablaba más de veintinueve lenguas europeas, asiáticas y africanas a la perfección y entendía otras tantas. Fue cónsul británico en diferentes países. Un personaje que nos llevará de expedición por los lugares más exóticos del mundo del siglo XIX. Así comienza… Barcelona M’esborrona. El capitán Sir Richard Francis Burton (Elstree, Hertfordshire, 1821-Trieste 1890), escritor, militar, místico, científico, explorador, diplomático y agente secreto del gobierno británico, es el paradigma del erudito aventurero del siglo XIX, convertido en leyenda viva para sus propios contemporáneos. Fue el primer occidental en ver la Piedra Sagrada de La Meca y en hacer el peregrinaje (ataviado con el disfraz completo) de La Meca a Medina. Fue además cazador de tesoros, y espía durante la guerra de Crimea. Juventud, Primeras exploraciones y viaje a La Meca y Medina, Escándalos, Viaje al centro de África, Sección "Moment rosa" -El Kamasutra, Las mil y una noches, consulados y vejez. Dos horas de intrepidante programa para todos los públicos.

Sir Richard Francis Burton , explorador, aventurero, traductor, fue un experto orientalista. Hablaba más de veintinueve lenguas europeas, asiáticas y africanas a la perfección y entendía otras tantas. Fue cónsul británico en diferentes países. Un personaje que nos llevará de expedición por los lugares más exóticos del mundo del siglo XIX. Así comienza… Barcelona M’esborrona. El capitán Sir Richard Francis Burton (Elstree, Hertfordshire, 1821-Trieste 1890), escritor, militar, místico, científico, explorador, diplomático y agente secreto del gobierno británico, es el paradigma del erudito aventurero del siglo XIX, convertido en leyenda viva para sus propios contemporáneos. Fue el primer occidental en ver la Piedra Sagrada de La Meca y en hacer el peregrinaje (ataviado con el disfraz completo) de La Meca a Medina. Fue además cazador de tesoros, y espía durante la guerra de Crimea. Juventud, Primeras exploraciones y viaje a La Meca y Medina, Escándalos, Viaje al centro de África, Sección "Moment rosa" -El Kamasutra, Las mil y una noches, consulados y vejez. Dos horas de intrepidante programa para todos los públicos.

Sir Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, adventurer, soldier, author, poet, sexologist and translator. He brought us the Kama Sutra and spoke 29 languages. The author Monica Ali champions this racy character and tells Matthew Parris why this 19th-century explorer is a Great Life. They are also joined by historian and broadcaster Matthew Ward. Producer: Perminder Khatkar.

Paracast favorites Greg Bishop and Walter Bosley are our special guests. Our conversations on the July 12 episode with Marie Jones whetted our appetite for more mind games and conspiracy talk, so who better to dig into the subject than Greg and Walter? Greg Bishop was the publisher of the Excluded Middle magazine and the compilation book, Wake Up Down There; Project Beta, was co-author of Weird California and is the longtime host of Radio Mysterioso. Walter Bosley is a former AFOSI agent and a former FBI counterintelligence specialist. He's author of the intriguing books, Empire of the Wheel: Espionage, The Occult and Murder in Southern California; and his recent books, Latitude 33: Key to the Kingdom and the just-released The Lost Expedition of Sir Richard Francis Burton. Greg and Walter offer a wealth of knowledge concerning conspiracy, mind-control, secret government tech, and much more! There's so much here that this discussion will extend to After The Paracast.

http://abortionmatrix.com Of course, while witchcraft, goddess worship and other forms of pagan spirituality serve to under-gird and empower the abortion industry, the vast majority of its supporters have no conscious interest in – and may well even condemn – such forms of occult spirituality. No matter. As long as they sacrifice or support the sacrifice of children to the idols of convenience – they are, whether they realize it or not, ensnared “by the devil, having been captured by him to do his will” (2 Timothy 2:26). As Jesus said to people who were even convinced that they were on God's side: “You are of your father the devil … and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning …” (John 8:44). But there's another spiritual dynamic feeding into the abortion industry that we should also consider. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a growing interest in eastern mysticism, pagan spirituality and even occultism, particularly among the liberal elite in the West. Enlightenment humanism and higher criticism – the field of textual analysis that increasingly questioned the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible – created a spiritual vacuum into which flowed all manner of alternative and esoteric beliefs – many of a sexual nature. For example, renowned explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton found the exotic sexual practices of the orient fascinating and looked for ways to bring them back to the UK in order to challenge the prevailing Victorian morality. In 1883, he published the Kama Sutra, at the time barely known even in India, and turned it into the urtext of supposed sexual enlightenment. Ananga-Ranga (1885), The Perfumed Garden (1886) and essays sympathetic to homosexuality accomplished their purpose: semi-legitimizing perversion and launching a vigorous public debate about purity and pornography, desire and deviance, state regulation and personal freedom. This, along with other subversive efforts, prepared the way for a rash of academics and clinicians who pioneered the so-called science of sexology. Far too often, this new “science” sought to normalize an ever-increasing variety of sexual behaviors while ignoring or even attacking God's standards on the subject.