Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821–1890) has 2 books in the BigBookHub catalogue: Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 1 (of 2) and The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to….

Burton's vivid chronicle of Zanzibar transforms a colonial-era travelogue into a sensory immersion in the island's exotic culture, trade networks, and contradictions, written by one of history's most fearless and controversial explorers.

A travel narrative of a journey to Great Salt Lake City and on over the Rockies to California. The author describes the terrain, the Mormon settlements and the dangers of the frontier, including encounters with Native tribes.