The man was pure genius and he knew it, I have read six books about him and still can't get enough. In 2017 I even went into parts of Pakistan where Burton traveled. I only wish I was born in the 1800's so I could have met him, we might have changed history for the better.

Pour mr aberkane

Guardians and guardian angels ... I love this, dear special friend.

This is fascinating! Thank you for sharing the link with me on Facebook!

What a nice tribute to Chuck. He and Dave Woods were the first people at the zoo to talk to us when we were young visitors. They encouraged our interests in animals.

Burton has no equal. My hero since I was a young boy. His gift for linguistics have given the western world the treasures of the east. His toughness and bravery are legendary. It is almost hard to look at him as a mere mortal.

Brings back memories , remember Mike Homola from the Elephant House running off with Monika from our Snake House ....?

extordinary man

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lord of explorers,brave man,talented,39 language speaking,swordman,god bless him,

The man!

il piu grande esploratore di sempre.

I recently read a book called Sindh Revisited: In the footsteps of Sir Richard F Burton. Tells the story of his travels into the interior of Sindh, India (Now Pakistan). A really funny incident occurred when he was in Goa, India and fell in love with a nun from a local convent. They decided to elope and on the night of the planned escape, Sir Richard broke into the said convent, picked up the nun, his lover, as she lay half asleep and began to run out of the convent. The nun began screaming in his arms; and this is when he realized that it was the MOTHER SUPERIOR: He picked up the wrong nun. Dropping the stunned Mother Superior right there, he ran out of the convent, empty handed never to see his lover again. Ooh so funny.

He spoke 25 languages, not including dialects.

With his magnificent war wound and dashing moustache, this man has been from Mecca to America all for the name of exploration and to study other cultures. I wish I had his talent for picking up languages. It is said he kept notes on the genitals of every local tribe he ran across. Lol. Amazing Only a genius and anthropological revolutionary would even bother with the sexual practices of the new and exotic lands they explored.

A man that could not stay still in body or his head. His approach to learning anything was obsessive and his writings show this. His 'canoe' ride down the Sao Francisco was supposed to be some kind of holiday yet his observations and analysis suggest he hardly slept. How he found time to write such detailed notes is beyond me.

The man was extraordinary. Just finished a biography of him. Wow. An explorer and renaissance man; one of the greatest linguists of his time and instrumental in the creation of the then burgeoning field of anthropology. A true intellect.

What a life.

Thank you for sharing this great clip. We used it in our story "Sir Richard Francis Burton" taletown.org/stories/people-places/150-sir-richard-francis-burton

One of my personal heroes.

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I'm related to him too man , and i also like kush...coincidence?

I was told that in one of his books he declared that he and his wife became Muslims . Is that true?

Sarah, thank you!

This is awesome! I had goosebumps and misty eyes through the whole thing.

Wow. This video uses ALL the wipes.

One of the best quotes I read.

Hello, it's very uncultured to SHOUT. So please tell me how you would have preferred it to go ? The west had made the moral, technological and intellectual advances while the Aztecs were performing human sacrifice and the Africans enslaving one another. All sudden cultural changes are accompanied by suffering and drama. Do you think the Africans would have done any less if they had developed guns first ? Moors in Spain ? Violence is a characteristic of some humans not just Western old chap.

such a great man , great richie, thanks for sharing

Thanks for your comments. The music is from the movie THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS by the late, great Jerry Goldsmith.

This is really great. I love the music you used for this video. It suits Burton perfectly I think. Can you tell me what it is or where you found it? Thanks.

One tough SOB. The Somali's were story enough for one man, but not for Burton.

Thank you, Maggie. Bill Altimari Tucson

This is truly beautiful. I can see that you put your heart into it. Even the music is perfect. Thank you. Maggie Goff Bisbee, AZ

And then she turned around and burnt his nearly entire lifetime collection of journals and writings in a bonfire right after his death, an unimaginable loss to the world..that can never be replaced or rediscovered

At 2:18 Lady Burton is saying, "Now, Richard, don't write any more dirty stories!"

One of the greatest Explorers of all time! I tried to find his house in Sallahiye, Damascus, just a month ago.

Mine too, those eyes so piercing........because of him I became enamoured with Arabia. In 1988 came to work in Jeddah and followed Burton's route towards Mekkah. and onto Medina through the volcanic field......very barren. That was 22 years ago I am still in the Arabia Peninsular......

THIS GUY IS MY HERO