Sir Richard Francis Burton
1821-1890
British Explorer and Scholar
An adventurer with a gift for languages, Sir Richard Francis Burton was the first European to reach many of the once forbidden areas o...
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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...
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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, Afr...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton was not a book collector in the usual sense of the word. A prodigious buyer and reader of books throughout his adult life, he amassed a notable library that intimately refle...
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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 engine...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton, Sir
Sir Richard F(rancis) Burton