The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California by Richard Francis Burton

The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Richard Francis Burton

742 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821 90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he first gained celebrity for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, conducted under the disguise of a p...

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