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Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (/ ˈ b ɜːr t ən /; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, and soldier. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.
Sir Richard Burton, English scholar-explorer and Orientalist who was the first European to discover Lake Tanganyika and to penetrate hitherto-forbidden Muslim cities. He published 43 volumes on his explorations and almost 30 volumes of translations, including an unexpurgated translation of The Arabian Nights.
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Mar 19, 2023 · explorer 19. March 2023 1 Tabea Tietz. On March 19, 1821, Sir Richard Francis Burton , British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet , fencer and diplomat was born. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his ...
Sir Richard Francis Burton, c. 1870 © Burton was a Victorian explorer, writer and translator, known for his travels in Asia and Africa. Richard Francis Burton was born in Devon on 19...
Richard Francis Burton: The Englishman Who Went to Mecca and East Africa | Mental Floss. By the mag | Jul 23, 2015. Read More. by Jason Kerstein. Richard Francis Burton was a hard-living...
May 3, 2020 · Sun 3 May 2020 02.00 EDT. Passport details. Sir Richard Francis Burton, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and...
Life of Sir Richard Francis Burton. Soldier, explorer, linguist, ethnologist, and controversialist. Mostly self-educated, he mastered half a dozen Eastern languages after joining the Army of the East India Company in 1842, and produced ground-breaking ethnological studies of Sindh in the early 1850s.
