Dedicated
to the Study, Bibliographical and Otherwise, of the Noted British Orientalist
and Explorer
"How
strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about
the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the
merest trifles."
from Sir Richard Francis Burton's Sind Revisited (1877)
(Illustration from the cover of Of No Country,
illustrated by Howard Phipp.)