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Mar 9, 2023 · Our hero is Sir Richard Burton: the Victorian adventurer and explorer who out-swashbuckled just about everyone else. Rising from relatively boring circumstances to become a knight of the Empire and world-renowned scholar, explorer, and diplomat, Burton was the very picture of a Victorian gentleman ... on the surface. Dig down a little bit ...
The Complete Works of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, including his journal articles, together with the standard biographies, numerous portraits, images and critical commentary. Supplemented by the Complete Works of Isabel Burton, and John Hanning Speke. Free and unexpurgated.
The first two expeditions that Speke went on were organised by Richard Francis Burton. In 1858, Burton and Speke reached Lake Tanganyika. Burton thought that this was the source of the Nile. He was ill and had to rest. Speke continued the expedition and found Lake Victoria (left). He claimed that this was the source of the Nile.
Burton and Speke is a 1982 historical novel by William Harrison recounting the 1857 expedition of the search for the source of the Nile by the famous Victorian explorer, linguist and anthropologist Sir Richard Burton and English aristocrat and amateur hunter John Hanning Speke. [1] The book was adapted for film in 1990 by Harrison and director ...
It's an amazing story of exploration, near-death experiences, and the most almighty feud. In part one of our mini-series on The Quest To Find The Origin of the River Nile, we'll be telling the story of the first major expedition by British explorers, Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke.
Background. Burton – an accomplished geographer, explorer, orientalist, ethnologist, diplomat, polylinguist and author – was best known in his lifetime for travelling in disguise to Mecca (1853) and for journeying (with John Hanning Speke) as the first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile (1857–58).
The loss to history and anthropology was monumental; the loss to Burton’s biographers, irreparable. Sir Richard Burton - Explorer, Scholar, Diplomat: Burton now entered the British Foreign Office as consul in Fernando Po, a Spanish island off the coast of West Africa. During his three years there, he made many short trips of exploration into ...