The complete online text of Masters of the English Novel 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...

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