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DescriptionRichard Frances Burton.jpg
English: Sir Richard Francis Burton 1821-1890
Explorer, ethnographer, and man of letters. Pilgrim to Mecca and Harar; discoverer of Lake Tanganyika; translator of the Arabian Nights; controversialist and iconoclast.
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before 1890
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