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	Richard Francis Burton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burton was born in Torquay, Devon at 9:30pm on March 19th 1821 (though he claimed in his autobiography to have been born in the family home at Barham House in Hertfordshire, this is an error).
		Burton died early on the morning of the 20th October 1890 of a heart attack.
		Burton's trek to Mecca was quite dangerous and his caravan was attacked by bandits (a common experience at the time).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton (3917 words)

	Richard Burton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burton is sometimes erroneously referred to as "Sir Richard Burton", perhaps due to the similarity of his assumed name to that of Sir Richard Francis Burton, but unlike the 19th century scholar, he never received a knighthood.
		There is a widespread myth (perhaps encouraged or even believed by some members of his stoutly working-class family) that Richard Burton "won a scholarship to Oxford at the age of sixteen" but left after six months.
		In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton (who had now taken his teacher's surname), was allowed into Exeter College for a term of six months study.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Burton (866 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
		Burton was raised in France and Italy and his talent for languages meant that he was fluent in four languages and two dialects before he was twenty: he would eventually learn 25 languages and another 15 dialects.
		Burton disagreed with him, the two became badly estranged and, in September 1864, a debate between the two ended in tragedy when Speke was killed while hunting.
		Burton's next move was to the Foreign Office, which appointed him consul in Fernando Po, a Spanish island off the coast of West Africa.
	bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/burton_sir_richard_francis.shtml (376 words)

	Richard Francis Burton in Relationships
		Richard Francis Burton served as a spy in peacetime India and as an officer in the Crimean War.
		In each of the segments of his life, Richard Francis Burton was viewed as a difficult character, which he most assuredly was, and he never missed an opportunity to show his contempt for those in superior positions to him.
		Richard Francis Burton was also said to be the best horseman and the finest swordsman in the British military.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Richard_Francis_Burton.asp (712 words)

	Channel 4 Television - to the ENDS of the EARTH
		In 1856, Richard Francis Burton was commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society to lead an expedition to solve the problem once and for all.
		Burton and Speke spent six months in Zanzibar port, the Arab flavour of which was decidedly to the eclectic taste of Burton, who spent his time learning Swahili and measuring the size of the male inhabitants' penises, an anthropological pursuit calculated to unsettle the prudish Speke.
		Here, Burton heard that somewhere to the west lay a 'slug-like lake' of enormous size that he guessed might be the legendary tears of Isis, said by the ancient Egyptians to be the source of the Nile.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/E/ends/nile3.html (1020 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton
		Richard Francis Burton was born near Elstree, Hertfordshire, on March 19, 1821, the son of an army colonel.
		Burton later attended Oxford University, where he was known as "Ruffian Dick" for his long moustaches and penchant for challenging students to duels; he was eventually expelled for attending horse races.
		Burton and his brother were first wild children -- at ten years of age, Burton stole his father's rifle and shot out stained-glass church windows -- and, later, wilder adolescents.
	www.rimbaud.freeserve.co.uk /burton3.htm (1103 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton
		Burton was an English scholar-explorer and author of 43 volumes on his explorations and almost 30 volumes of translations, including an unexpurgated 16-volume translation of The Arabian Nights (1885-88).
		After explorations in Africa, India, Arabia and the mid-western United States, Burton was appointed consul to Fernando Po (1862-64), Santos Brazil (1865-69), Damascus (1870-71) and finally Trieste (1872-90).
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/burton_r/burton_r.html (70 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: Sir Richard Francis Burton
		Burton's frankness about sexuality was the most likely reason that his widow, in an effort to "preserve his reputation," burned his memoirs after his death.
		Burton also wrote A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Mecca and Al-Madina, which is the account of his participation in the Hajj in 1853, impersonating an Indian Pathan.
		Burton wrote the poem The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî and translated The Arabian Nights (Alf Laylah wa Laylah, the Thousand Nights and a Night) with copious annotations; both of these works are included in Section 2 of the A:.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/burton.htm (452 words)

	JINX BURTON
		Burton, Speke and their entourage were attacked in the middle of the night by a Somali tribe.
		Although Burton's travels to the holy cities of Medina and Mecca were ones in which the possibility of execution was a constant, they had been accomplished by several other Westerners in the past, most of whom had been sold into slavery by the Turks.
		As impressive as Burton's expeditions to Mecca and Medina were, and for all the fame they brought him, there was an even more elusive treasure Burton coveted, one feat that had never before been accomplished by any Westerner: to enter the forbidden city of Harar in East Africa.
	www.jinxmagazine.com /burton.html (2030 words)

	The Life Story of Sir. Burton
		Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890), British explorer, linguist, and student of Asian cultures, one of the most famous mid-19th century European explorers of Africa.
		Burton was born in Torquay, England, to an English army officer and his wealthy wife, the latter rumored to be descended from the French Bourbon kings.
		Burton is believed to have been the first European to enter the ancient walled city and survive.
	www.empereur.com /burton.html (900 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton
		Burton (who excelled at reconnaissance, mapping, and languages) used his military commissions and scientific funding to map new trade routes, identify and catalogue valuable natural resources, and to analyze the political, religious, and economic systems in foreign countries.
		Burton is probably most famous for discovering the source of the Nile River in Africa with his partner, John Hanning Speke, in 1858.
		He lived at a time when Europeans were agressively searching for -- and claiming -- the sources of the world's wealth.
	www.9types.com /movieboard/messages/13323.html (592 words)

	Richard Francis Burton
		It was on this date, March 19, 1821 that the English explorer, Orientalist and part-time spy, Sir Richard Francis Burton was born.
		In 1886, Queen Victoria awarded Burton the honor of Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George for his service to England, although when he died, on October 20, 1890, he was considered unfit to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
		A fairer estimate of Burton's religion might be that he was an Agnostic.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0319almanac.htm (409 words)

	Sir Richard F. Burton
		Burton clearly differentiated between "barbarians" and "savages", as it was understood by the experts at the time.
		Burton was ever the iconoclast, always on the run, propelling his wander-lust and urge for exploration.
		Burton rationalizes this by saying, "Amongst the wiser ancients sinning contra naturam was not marrying and begetting children." This is indeed the greatest sin, but there are others.
	www.jrbooksonline.com /burton.htm (1298 words)

	BBC - Devon Discovering Devon - Famous People - Captain Sir Richard Burton
		Richard Burton was knighted for his daring exploits by Queen Victoria four years before his death.
		This particular Richard Burton was born in Torquay in 1821...and to say he got around is an understatement.
		Burton thrived on danger, and entered territory where there was plenty of it - including the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/discovering/famous/sir_richard_burton.shtml (414 words)

	EuropaWorld 16/2/2001 Sir Richard Francis Burton
		Richard Francis Burton was born in England in 1821, the son of an army colonel.
		The life of Richard Francis Burton is one that frustrates simple definition.
		Accompanying his parents on their frequent travels abroad, the young Richard gained both a taste for travel and a linguistic ability that stayed with him for the rest of his life.
	www.europaworld.org /Issue22/sirrichardfrancisburton16201.htm (766 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), Explorer and writer
		Sir Richard Burton was an explorer and scholar attracted to all things strange and exotic.
		Burton spent most of the rest of his life in consular posts from which he continued to travel.
		In 1853 he made a pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise and with fellow explorer John Hanning Speke, was the first European to see Lake Tanganyika in Africa.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp00673 (137 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton
		Sir Richard Frances Burton was born on March 19, 1521.
		Burton disagreed then their friend ship was over.
		Burton and his crew were looking for the source White Nile.
	home.centurytel.net /sha/sirburton.html (136 words)

	Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - by Adam Jones
		Burton's wife, Isabel, was a quixotic figure up until publication, in 1998, of Mary Lovell's monumental 900-page work, A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton.
		I admire Burton for his wanderlust, his obsessively observant eye, his grace and precision as a writer, and his astonishing fortitude.
		They include the erotic texts of the Kama Sutra and The Perfumed Garden - Burton scandalized Victorian England with his frank descriptions of sexual practices, and his regular proclamations of the centrality of women's pleasure.
	adamjones.freeservers.com /burton.htm (1115 words)

	Stone Talk by Richard Francis Burton
		It is known that Lady Burton "bought up and destroyed a large number of the copies"; see Penzer, p.
		Burton had an instinctive animosity toward such types.
		This book by Burton is rare, having had an original printing of only 200 copies.
	www.jrbooksonline.com /stone_talk.htm (289 words)

	Burton, Sir Richard Francis on Encyclopedia.com
		BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS [Burton, Sir Richard Francis] 1821-90, English explorer, writer, and linguist.
		After a visit to the United States, Burton published an account of the Mormon settlement at Utah in his City of the Saints (1861).
		1970), A. Bercovici (1962), and F. Brodie (1966), and biography of Burton and his wife by M. Lovell (1998).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BurtonS1rR1.asp (712 words)

	Richard Francis Burton
		Richard Francis Burtons character was extrapolated broadly in the Flashman historical novels by George MacDonald Frasier
		Richard Francis Weymouth - The New Testament in Modern Speech- 0227675509
		Burtons next journey was to explore the interior of the Somali Country (modern Somalia), as British authorities wanted to protect the Red Sea trade.
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	Sir Richard Francis Burton
		The Jew, The Gypsy, and El Islam, By the Late Captain Sir Richard Burton...
		Unfortunately for posterity, Burton's wife burned many of his diaries and journals after he died, in order to depict her husband in a light that was acceptable to Victorian sensitivities.
		Burton was working on an enlarged and annotated version and translating from the original Arabic, when he died.
	www.rimbaud.freeserve.co.uk /burton2.htm (1036 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton and General Charles 'Chinese' Gordon
		Burton was incredulous at the news of Gordon's death, and refused for a long time to believe it, insisting that he had escaped.
		Burton and Gordon were two of the most fascinating men of the Victorian age, and Lady Burton was herself remarkable.
		Burton saw this from the first, and later Gordon came to see that his view was the right one.
	www.miskatonic.org /history/burton-gordon.html (8932 words)

	Burton, Richard Francis
		Born Richard Jenkins, he adopted the name of the 19th-century English explorer of Africa, Richard Burton, whom he admired.
		In 1853 he visited Mecca and Medina disguised as an Afghan pilgrim; he was then commissioned by the Foreign Office to explore the sources of the Nile.
		In his troubled career, he married and divorced, then remarried film star Elizabeth Taylor, with whom he is pictured here.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0009688.html (364 words)

	burton.htm
		-----Catalogue of Valuable Books, Manuscripts & Autograph Letters of Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG 1821-1890.
		Burton's account of their earlier trip together can be found in his "The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860)".
		Burton's account of this trip can be found in his First Footsteps in East Africa.
	www.wollamshram.ca /1001/burton.htm (1367 words)

	Sir Richard Francis Burton: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
		Sir Richard Francis Burton (March 19, 1821- Oct. 20, 1890) was an English explorer, linguist, author, and soldier.
		In 1855, Burton and three companions (including John Hanning Speke and two other officers of the British East India Company) began an unsuccessful trip in search of the source of the White Nile; one member of the expedition was killed in an attack by Africans, and Speke and Burton were injured.
		Burton is well-known for his translation of the 16 volumes of "The Tales of the Arabian Nights" and other Eastern books.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/b/burton.shtml (341 words)

	Alibris: Richard Francis Burton
		Sir Richard Burton's controversial translation, which caused a stir in the Western world, is provided here, in the complete and unexpurgated edition of this world-famous...
		Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage).
		Burton describes his three-year voyage throughout Central Africa from 1856-1859.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Richard_Francis_Burton (950 words)

	Photograph Of Sir Richard Francis Burton
		Sir Richard Francis Burton - Sir Richard Francis Burton was a 19th C. explorer, linguist, scholar, soldier, anthropologist, and famed translator of the Arabian Nights, Kama Sutra of...
		Sir Richard Francis Burton: Explorer- EnchantedLearning.com - Sir Richard Francis Burton (March 19, 1821 - Oct. 20, 1890) was an English explorer, linguist, author, and soldier.
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	www.somephoto.com /photograph-of-sir-richard-francis-burton.html (651 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
		Burton was raised in France and Italy and his talent for languages meant that he was fluent in four languages and two dialects before he was twenty: he would eventually learn 25 languages and another 15 dialects.
		Burton disagreed with him, the two became badly estranged and, in September 1864, a debate between the two ended in tragedy when Speke was killed while hunting.
		Burton's next move was to the Foreign Office, which appointed him consul in Fernando Po, a Spanish island off the coast of West Africa.
	bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/burton_sir_richard_francis.shtml (376 words)

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