Bram Stoker, Lord Dunsany and Sax Rohmer were all admirers of Richard F. Burton. Burton may have died in 1890, but his literary influence reaches right up until the present day.
Read MoreJune 1st marks the sixty-second anniversary of the death of Sax Rohmer. DMR Books recently marked the bicentennial of Sir Richard Burton’s birth. Rohmer counted Burton’s multi-volume translation of A Thousand and One Arabian Nights as one of the key influences in shaping both his writing and his lifelong interests.
Read MoreRichard F. Burton exerted a huge influence upon the dawn of the Heroic Age of Exotic Adventure Fiction. Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling were among his admirers.
Read MoreRichard F. Burton was a writer and a poet, on top of being an anthropologist, an archaeologist, a geographer, a linguist, a mystic, a swordsman, a spy and a sexologist. Writing and poetry, not exploration or geography, are the through-lines to be seen from one end of his life to the other. RFB was a man of the written word, with few rivals during his era when it comes to quality and even fewer when it comes to quantity. He influenced authors from Arthur Conan Doyle to Philip Jose Farmer…and he still inspires authors today.
Read MoreHe was a Victorian force of nature; a devil-driven, raging-to-live legend in his own time. Richard Francis Burton wrote The Book of the Sword and translated the--Arabic--Book of Love. He was an anthropologist, an archaeologist, a geographer, a linguist, a poet, a mystic, a spy and a sexologist. Withal and besides, RBF still found time to be the best horseman, swordsman and pistol-shot in the British Army...when he wasn't romancing the ladies and infuriating polite society.
Read MoreRichard Francis Burton is one of the odder Victorian heroes. He had amazing abilities to absorb new languages and a zest to study other cultures which made him perfect for undercover work.
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