1821-1890
Scholar, explorer, orientalist, anthropologist and author.
- "Sindh and the races that inhabit the valley of the Indus." London / 1851 / William H. Allen
- "Goa and the Blue Mountains, or, six months of sick leave." 1851 / Richard Bentley.
- "Scinde, or, the unhappy valley." London / 1851 / Richard Bentley
- "Falconry in the valley of the Indus." London / 1852 / J. van Voorst.
- "Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to el-Medinah and Mecca." 2 vols. London / 1855. Repr. NY / 1964.
- "First footsteps in East Africa." (Harar expedition) 2 vols. 1856 / Longman, Green. Repr. ed. Gordon Waterfield, London / 1966 / Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- "The Lake Regions of Central Africa." 2 vols. London / 1860 / Longmans, Green.*
- (anonymously) "Wanderings in West Africafrom Liverpool to Fernando Po; by a FRGS." 2 vols. 1863
- "Abeokuta and the Cameroons mountains: an exploration." 2 vols. 1863.
- Burton, Richard and McQueen, James: "The Nile Basin". 1864 / Tinsley Bros. New ed. with intro by R.O.Collins London / (cat. 1969) / Frank Cass.
- "A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome." 2 vols. 1864. Repr. ed. C.W.Newbury, London / 1966 / Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- "Wit and wisdom from West Africa...." 1865
- "Letters from the battlefields of Paraguay." London / 1870.
- "Zanzibar, city, island and coast." 2 vols. 1872 / Tinsley Bros. Repr. -- / -- / --
- "Two trips to gorilla lkand and the cataracts of the Congo." 1876.
- (With V.L.CAMERON): "To the Gold Coast for gold - a personal narrative." 1883
*Burton was attacked by geographer W.D.Cooley (defending SPEKE) in "Memoir of the Lake Regions... reviewed." London / 1864 / Edward Stanford.

Latinised as BUSBEQUIUS
1522-1592
Flemish. Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople from 1554-1562.
- "Legationis Turcicae epistolae quatuor."
- "Travels into Turkey... translated from the original Latin of the learned Augier Ghislain Busbequius with memoirs of the life of the illustrious author." London / 1744
- "Letters of Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II." Tr. R.Jones and B.Webster. NY / 1961
- "The Turkish letters of Ogier de Busbecq.... translated from the Elzevir edition of 1633 by E.S.Forster." 1968.,

- "Echoes from old Calcutta." Calcutta / (4th ed.) 1904 / W.Thacker.

1711-1773
Author of "Lives of the Saints" (1756-9). Pub. travels.

1838-1910
Soldier. Canada, Ashanti, S.Africa, Sudan.
- "The great lone land." (Canada) 1872.
- "The wild North land." (Canada) 1873.
- Posthumous "Autobiography." 1911.

BABBAGE
Australia c. 1856

fl 1610-1616
Navigator. Explored for NW passage with HUDSON 1610-11, BUTTON 1612-13, and GIBBONS 1614 and in 1615-16 as commander with BAFFIN as pilot. (See - Markham: "The Voyages of William Baffin" 1881 / Hakluyt Society (Series I, no. 63) and RUNDALL, CHRISTY.

1788-1824
Traveller, poet and womaniser. For travels see HOBHOUSE.

1789-1868
Cousin of the poet. Sent to Sandwich Islands in Blonde to return the bodies of the King and Queen of the islands who had died in England. On the return voyage he rescued the crew of a merchantman, the Frances and Mary, who had been reduced to cannibalism.
- "The voyage of HMS Blonde to the Sandwich Islands in the years 1824-1825..." London / 1826 / John Murray.
See also STEWART, Charles Samuel.

Scholar and traveller
- "An essay on India." 1931.
- "First Russia, then Tibet." 1933.
- "The road to Oxiana." 1937. London / 1950 / John Lehmann.