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A Rough Knight for the Queen

A Rough Knight for the Queen

Hodder, Mark
Spiteri, Paul
Farmer, Philip Jose

Paperback

Adventurers & Explorers

ISBN10: 1945427183
ISBN13: 9781945427183
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Aug 31 2020
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. --Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton, the protagonist of Philip José Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go, had even more adventures in real life than he did in fiction. His exploits include journeying to Mecca in disguise, at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; publishing unexpurgated English translations of One Thousand and One Nights and The Kama Sutra; and, along with John Hanning Speke, was one of the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile. Burton was a captain in the army of the East India Company and later served briefly in the Crimean War. He was engaged by the Royal Geographical Society to explore the east coast of Africa, where he led an expedition guided by locals and was the first European known to have seen Lake Tanganyika. He served as British consul in Fernando Pó, Santos in Brazil, Damascus, and finally in Trieste. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was awarded a knighthood in 1886. This biography by Farmer opens in 1855, when Burton was thirty-four years old and on the expedition searching for the source of the Nile.

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