About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Richard Francis Burton, Thomas William Rhys Davids, Aubrey Herbert, Ernest Mason Satow, St John Philby, Robert Caldwell, James Atkinson, James Long, Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, Robert Irwin, Simon Digby, Alan Millard, William Wright, Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet, Albert Hourani, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Richard Bowring, Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, David Wilkins, Paul Rycaut, David Price, Douglas Morton Dunlop, James Hoare, Edward Ullendorff, William Crooke, Solomon Caesar Malan, Victor Purcell, Stanley Lane-Poole, Eric Teichman, Frederick Victor Dickins, Carl Gottfried Woide, Zahra Freeth, Richard Rudolf Walzer, William St. Clair Tisdall, Keith Pratt, Gustav Haloun, M. A. Sherring, William E. Skillend, Lawrence Conrad, Marie Bennigsen-Broxup, Edward Denison Ross, John Dowson. Excerpt: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 - 20 October 1890) 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. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages. Burton's best-known achievements include travelling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (also commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after Andrew Lang's abridgement), bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English, and journeying with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans led by Africa's greatest explorer guide, Sidi Mubarak Bombay, utilizing route information by Indian and Omani merchants who traded in the region, to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile. Burton extensively criticized colonial poli...
