Richard Francis Burton
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) was a famous English explorer, writer, translator, ethnologist, spy and soldier.[1]
He traveled a lot in Asia, Africa and the Americas.[2] As a spy for the British government, he was also among the very few Western Christian people who secretly managed to visit the Islamic holy city of Mecca, in Arabia, at the time of the Hajj[3]
He is also famous for his English language translation of the Arabic book, One Thousand and One Nights (also called The Arabian Nights).
Richard Francis Burton Media
Burton in Persian disguise as "Mirza Abdullah the Bushri" (c. 1849)
Burton disguised as "Haji Abdullah" in 1853 (illustration from Burton's Personal Narrative)
An illustration of Isabel Burton
Monument commemorating Burton and Speke's arrival in Ujiji
Burton was the first European to see Lake Tanganyika
Portrait of Captain Richard Burton, 1864
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Richard Burton's tomb at Mortlake, south west London, June 2011
Close up of inscription on the tomb
en:Richard Francis Burton, English explorer. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1887 Jan. 22.
