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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.
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The British explorer and Arabist Sir Richard Francis Burton...
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Isabel Burton (née Arundell; 20 March 1831 – 22 March 1896),...
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Richard Burton CBE (/ ˈ b ɜːr t ən /; born Richard Walter...
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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.
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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...
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.
May 17, 2018 · Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), English explorer, scholar, poet, translator, and diplomat, explored in Africa and Asia and studied Oriental literature and American religions.
