Sir Richard Francis Burton
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 104
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) - soldier, explorer, linguist, anthropologist, literatus - is perhaps best known as co-discoverer (with partner John Hanning Speke), of the source of the Nile, and the first translator into English of the Thousand And One Nights, the Karma Sutra, and The Perfumed Garden. His publications number over 100 in all.