The complete online text of Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 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...

Rebels have seized an area in eastern Congo that serves as a wildlife habitat for endangered mountain gorillas, threatening one of the last known populations of the animals, conservationists said Sunday. Shelling and heavy gunfire could be heard from the headquarters of the...

Farmers in Congo threaten rare gorillas' habitat Wall goes up to protect them, if only as symbol By DANIEL BALINT-KURTI Associated Press Friday, July 16, 2004 Kinshasa, Congo -- Farmers have overrun thousands of acres in Congo's oldest national park,...