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Richard Francis Burton was born on March 19, 1821 in Torquay, Devonshire, England. His father, Lt.-Colonel Joseph Netterville Burton, was a British army officer in the 36th regiment and his mother, Martha Baker, was the daughter of a wealthy English squire.
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2003. The Complete Works of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, including his journal articles, together with the standard biographies, numerous portraits, images and critical commentary. Supplemented by the Complete Works of Isabel Burton, and John Hanning Speke. Free and unexpurgated.
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Sir Richard Burton, (born March 19, 1821, Torquay, Devonshire, England—died October 20, 1890, Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now in Italy]), English scholar-explorer and Orientalist who was the first European to discover Lake Tanganyika and to penetrate hitherto-forbidden Muslim cities. He published 43 volumes on his explorations and almost 30 volumes of translations, including an unexpurgated.
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About this eBook. Translator. Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. Title. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01. Alternate Title. Arabian Nights; 1001 Nights. Original Publication.
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Burton, Isabel. 1893. The Life of Sir Richard F. Burton. 2 vols. London, Chapman and Hall.A primary source for many of the Burton 'facts'. Hitchman, Francis. 1887.Richard F. Burton 2 vols. London. The first life, written partly with Burton's own cooperation, which was withdrawn after he became dissatisfied with the results.
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Richard Francis Burton was a hard-living combination of Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt. By 1853, he'd already swashbuckled his way through enough adventures for several lifetimes. The.
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Richard Francis Burton was born in Devon on 19 March 1821. His father was an army officer. Burton accompanied his parents on their frequent trips abroad and showed an early talent for languages.
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Richard Francis Burton was one of the great adventurers of the Victorian era, and a spy. But several weeks just before the Civil War are curiously missing from his life's account.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS ( / ˈbɜːrtən /; 19 March 1821 - 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, [1] 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. According to one count, Burton spoke.
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The Book of Burtoniana: Letters & Memoirs is now avalable in print, in 3 volumes. The Complete Works of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, including his journal articles, together with the standard biographies, numerous portraits, images and critical commentary. Supplemented by the Complete Works of Isabel Burton, and John Hanning Speke.
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton. Edward Rice, 1990. Rice's massive biography, larger perhaps than even the various early Lives, was a New York Times bestseller and did much to spark popular interest in Burton in the early 1990s. Rice read Burton comprehensively and visited many of the places of significance in his travels, and his biography weighs in favorably in many respects.
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography. Paperback - June 1, 2001. by Edward Rice (Author) 4.4 109 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. A New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life.
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Richard Francis Burton was born in Devon, England in 1821. He got his first taste of adventure at a very young age, traveling around the world with his father, who was an officer in the British Army. As a boy, the world-traveling Burton had an extraordinary talent for languages (by the end of his life, he was supposedly fluent in around 40) and.
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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 of the world, including many ancient Muslim cities, as well as Lake Tanganyika during his quest for the source of the Nile River.He wrote extensively of his travels, publishing 43 volumes and.
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.
Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) was a British orientalist, soldier, spy, diplomat, and explorer best known for his travels in Arabia, Africa, and India. He was born in Torquay, on the southern coast of England, and was raised in France and Italy. It was there that he began to show his exceptional talent with languages by learning Latin, Greek, Italian, and French before he was 20.