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Goa, and the Blue Mountains; Or, Six Months of Sick Leave (Paperback)
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Goa, and the Blue Mountains; Or, Six Months of Sick Leave (Paperback)
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Published in 1851, this is the first book written by the famed
Victorian explorer Richard F. Burton. It is an account of his
journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick
leave from the British Indian army. Traveling through Bombay to the
Portuguese colony of Goa, he went through Calicut and other cities
on the Malabar coast, ending up in the Nilgiri mountains at the
hill station of Ootacamund. The observant traveler, not the
intrepid adventurer, is the narrator of the account, and its
intended audience was the voracious Victorian consumer of travel
literature. Coupled with a critical introduction by Dane Kennedy,
this facsimile edition provides a revealing look at the people who
inhabited a part of India that was generally off the beaten track
in the nineteenth century. The Portuguese and Mestizo inhabitants
of Goa, the Todas of Ootacamund, as well as the fellow Britons
Burton meets on his journey are all subject to his penetrating
scrutiny. Burton's clever, ascerbic, and unorthodox personality
together with his irreverence for convention and his bemused
disdain for humanity come through clearly in these pages, as does
his extraordinary command of the languages and literatures of
various people. 'What a glad moment it is, to be sure, when the
sick and seedy, the tired and testy invalid from pestiferous Scinde
or pestilential Guzerat, 'leaves all behind him' and scrambles over
the sides of his Pattimar'. 'His what?' 'Ah! we forget. The gondola
and barque are household words in your English ears, the budgerow
is beginning to own an old familiar sound, but you are right - the
'Pattimar' requires a definition'.
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