Sir Richard Francis Burton was born on 19th March 1821 in Torquay, Devon, England, and he died on 20th October 1890 (aged 69 years) in Trieste, Hungary. The first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa, Richard and his companion were the first to reach Lake Tanganyika. He wrote a well-documented trip to the Mecca, translated the Arabian Nights into English and took to learning about the Indian culture and learnt all the intricacies of it.
Do you know: Sir Richard Francis Burton could speak many languages including French, Italian, Neapolitan, Latin and Arabic. His repertoire also included Sindhi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi and Persian.
