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Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS ( / ˈbɜːrtən /; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, [1] 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. According to one count, Burton spoke ...
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The first edition of Burton's Personal Narrative of a...
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Isabel Burton (née Arundell; 20 March 1831 – 22 March 1896),...
- Richard Francis Burton Bibliography
Mar 15, 2024 · Sir Richard Burton (born March 19, 1821, Torquay, Devonshire, England—died October 20, 1890, Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now in Italy]) was an 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 ...
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Discover the facts behind the life of Sir Richard Burton - the Victorian explorer and writer who craved adventure. ... Richard Francis Burton was born in Devon on 19 March 1821. His father was an ...
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Oct 15, 2018 · A linguist, soldier, explorer, spy, and author (among many other things), Burton lived a life of almost unparalleled adventure that spanned nearly five continents and seven decades. The Early Adventures Of Richard Francis Burton. Richard Francis Burton was born in Devon, England in 1821. He got his first taste of adventure at a very young age ...
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.
Sir Richard Burton, (born March 19, 1821, Torquay, Devonshire, Eng.—died Oct. 20, 1890, Trieste, Austria-Hungary), English scholar-explorer and Orientalist. Expelled from Oxford in 1842, Burton went to India as a subaltern officer. There he disguised himself as a Muslim and wrote detailed reports of merchant bazaars and urban brothels.
Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, 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. According to one count, he spoke twenty-nine European, Asian, and ...
