The complete online text of First Footsteps in East Africa by Richard Francis Burton.

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. Richard Burton was born on March 19, 1821, in the west of England into...

Sir Richard Francis Burton was the preeminent nineteenth-century British travel writer, a brilliant linguist and translator, an extraordinary explorer, a pioneer anthropologist, a poet, a civil engineer, a field cartographer, a soldier one of Europe's be...

Sir Richard F. Burton, one of the most widely traveled, best read, and most fascinating of Victorian adventurers, was a prolific writer who left enduring accounts of his journeys in India, Arabia, Africa, and North America. He brought to his scholarship...

First Footsteps in East Africa by Richard Burton First published 1856. Most recent edition published by Dover Publications, pb, pp544, 11.95 [pounds sterling] Sir Richard Burton was a most atypical Victorian. Eccentric, scandal-prone, hot-headed and arguably Britain's greatest explorer of any age,...

EAST AFRICA Learning the human story of AIDS in Africa By ART WIGCHERS Sunday, October 19, 2003 Recently, I had the opportunity to go on a fact-finding tour of East Africa, visiting Uganda and Ethiopia under the Ambassador of Hope...