Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) was an English scholar-explorer and the author of forty-three classic narratives of exploration, including Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, the story of traveling in Muslim disguise to measure the Ka’bah; First Footsteps in East Africa, a chronicle of being the first European to enter the citadel of Harar without being executed; City of the Saints, a the tale of stagecoach journey to Salt Lake City; and Lake Regions of Central Africa, about the discovery of Lake Tanganyika. Fluent in forty languages, Burton translated The Arabian Nights and The Kama Sutra.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Tale of the Three Apples, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2014–2015