M.S. Bellows, Jr. on Nostr: Sir Richard Francis Burton "was a searcher, a shifter of interests. Burton’s ...

Sir Richard Francis Burton "was a searcher, a shifter of interests. Burton’s writings have been criticised as being unstructured, cluttered and self-indulgent, almost as if he had not the time nor inclination to properly revise and edit, but simply wanted to get the current project out of the way in order to get on with the next. This is borne out by the fact that, towards the end of his life, he had eleven desks set up in the study of his home in Trieste, where he was consul; each desk was for a different project and, when he tired of one, he would move to another, as if restlessly seeking for something."
Sex and drugs and the source of the Nile: Sir Richard Francis Burton | Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2015/09/17/sex-and-drugs-and-the-source-of-the-nile-sir-richard-francis-burton/