likes abandoned places, art and artists, books, buildings (preferably old or vernacular), Europe, Greece, history, Italy, Palestine, pirates

My Other Sites: Subscriptions:
Search
 

Tumblr_kw09e3vnm01qzxy2ko1_1280

sarahbelfort:

Walton Ford, The Orientalist, 1999

‘I have an ongoing project that has to do with Sir Richard Burton, the nineteenth-century explorer. One of the stories that stuck with me was about monkeys that he kept in his quarters when he was a young officer…The thing about this monkey picture is Richard Burton is keeping forty monkeys in his quarters when he’s a young officer to learn their language. There’s something just right away that strikes me as humorous in the quintessentially super-eccentric British way and their mode of building an empire which was carried out by these kinds of eccentrics.’

 

We have an interesting and intelligent young blogger here, too … Gidday Sarah

 

0 comments

Leave a comment...