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I have an obscure book request for /his/.
Pictured to the left is the character of Sir Malcolm Murray, featured in the series Penny Dreadful.
Essentially he's the classic British adventurer/explorer/collector. Travels the world, brings back artifacts and manuscripts, etc.
I have become interested in this archetypal character, especially after visiting the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin and realizing that men like Murray did exist, did travel the world, and did build enormous collections/conduct research.
Is there a 'term' for this adventurer/explorer? Are there any good monographs on the subject? Google is tough to wade through because I'm casting such a vague net. Basically, I want a book or books on the role of the adventurer/explorer in the 18th/19th/20th century.
Thanks if /his/ can throw me a bone.
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>>2177766
these, if you use ctrl f creatively you may find books to your liking:
ancient egypt
http://pastebin.com/VzezWf3m
>last section on egyptology
victorian travel writing
http://pastebin.com/twFv7tem
image of africa
http://pastebin.com/jqAmzBgy
china and orientalism
http://pastebin.com/MArkYzLz
also the cambridge history of christianity vol 8 has a lot of sections dedicated to missionary activity, so the bibliographies can be useful for you. many british missionaries were also naturalists, orientalists and explorers.
http://bookzz.org/book/732185/04f637
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Maybe this could help you
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Sir Richard Burton was the classic Victorian scholar-adventurer. I'm sure you can find a lot of his writing online.
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>>2179399
This one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton
So you don't get him confused with the actor.
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>>2179405
Seems like exactly what I'm searching for, thanks!
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Check out Heart of Africa.
Maybe a biography of whatshisname, Dr. Livingsworth?
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>>2177766
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
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>>2180074
check out the victorian travel writing link and there's a scholarly biography of burton listed in there
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A modern-day Victorian adventurer is Rory Stewart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart
"From 2000 to 2002 he travelled on foot through rural districts of Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, India and Nepal, a journey totalling around 6000 miles, during which time he stayed in five hundred different village houses.[12][13][14] He also walked across West Papua in 1998,[15] in addition to making a number of long walks through Cumbria and Britain.[16][17] He later travelled into Libya a day after the fall of Colonel Gaddafi.[18] He has also written about theory and practice of travel writings in prefaces to Thesiger's Arabian Sands, Doughty's Arabia Deserta and Byron's The Road to Oxiana."
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Going to bump this because I need time to save the information.
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