First Footsteps in East Africa

by Richard F. Burton

Overview

One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer’s firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on Muslim beliefs, manners and morals; plus pleasures and perils of the desert. A wealth of geographic, ethnographic and linguistic data.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014657808
Publisher:	Philtre Libre
Publication date:	07/03/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	324 KB

About the Author

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.