This would have been somewhat more interesting if it was about travels in a part of the world I'm remotely interested in, or if it had been written by somebody likable. Burton just took pride in doing anything people told him he couldn't do. He was a good writer, and bits here and there were interesting.

Mostly, it was sad. The level of sin reached by people without God is extreme. The Muslims were slavers. The tribes, even though they shared a religion, were constantly at war. Men gained honor by killing other men, even to the extent of bragging on the murder of pregnant women on the chance that the unborn child was male. Burton was constantly dealing with lying, begging and laziness among the people he hired and met. There was truly absolutely nothing admirable or interesting about the country apart from the condition of men without God.