Episode #079: Walter Bosley on Sir Richard F. Burton

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

We talk with Walter Bosley on his book "Secret Missions II: The Lost Expedition of Sir Richard Francis Burton", which, if you haven't read it...go read it.

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Done? Ah yes, you have the classic "omg my mind is blown" facial expression. Good. We talk about that mind blowing book in this episode, and more.

For those who have seen the movie "The Lost City of Z" about the adventures of Col. Percy Fawcett, this is like that, only more. And before. Basically, the stuff in that movie happened because of the stuff in Bosley's book.

You can find Walter Bosley on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at @WBBosley. His books are available on lulu. He also has a blog called Empire of the Wheel .

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0:00.0	Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Francis Burton, you are listening to Brothers of the Serpent Podcast.
0:15.0	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys girls angels and demons and demons and monsters and
0:23.5	serpents to brothers of the serpent podcast coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent
0:28.1	cube of science nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the Edwards
0:31.9	plateau this is episode 79 is that right 79 and we have another very special episode for you guys today.
0:40.0	We are joined by a writer, investigator, publisher, filmmaker, traveler, US Air Force veteran,
0:47.4	and stuff.
0:48.9	Mr. Walter Bosley, we are here to talk to him about his book, which a bunch of his books
0:53.7	I loved, but the main one we're going to talk about today is Secret Missions 2, the Lost Expedition of Sir Richard Francis Burton. How are you doing, Bosley? What's up?
1:02.6	Doing good, guys. I always love talking about this particular book, so I'm excited. All right.
1:09.4	Yeah, camped up here. Man, I'm super stoked about right. Yeah, I'm camped up here.
1:13.7	Man, I'm super stoked about this.
1:15.7	Like, I have loved this book for a long time.
1:18.8	So, and we've actually talked about it.
1:21.8	I've gone through some of the stuff that you have in the book on the show before.
1:25.0	So our listeners are, you know, somewhat familiar with it.
1:30.9	Yeah, they're somewhat familiar with it. Yeah, they're somewhat familiar with it, but I really want to get, you know, get down into the weeds with you about this stuff. Okay. So, like, first, like,
1:39.1	tell us how you got into this subject, how you discovered this subject. Uh, well, um, I have been an admirer of Sir Richard Francis Burton for many years. It really started.
1:44.7	My interest in him started in the 1990s.
1:48.1	And I had, of course, seen the film Mountains of the Moon with Patrick Bergen, which is about Burton and Speak in their search for the source of the Nile.
2:00.0	And that is a, I don't know, have you seen that movie?
2:02.4	I haven't, but I need to watch that one.
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