{"id":6176,"date":"2018-07-28T10:27:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T14:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eb1870.org\/?post_type=project&#038;p=6176"},"modified":"2018-07-28T10:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T14:27:36","slug":"sir-richard-francis-burton","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/project\/sir-richard-francis-burton\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Richard Francis Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Brother Sir Richard Francis Burton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">March 19th 1821 \u2013 October 20th 1890<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Member of:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hope Lodge, Kurrachee, Scinde, India<\/p>\n<p>Sir Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages.<\/p>\n<p>Burton&#8217;s best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after early translations of Antoine Galland&#8217;s French version); the publication of the Kama Sutra in English; and a journey with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_image _builder_version=&#8221;3.11&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/eb1870.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Famous-Freemason-Sir-Richard-Francis-Burton.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;on&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Brother Sir Richard Francis Burton March 19th 1821 \u2013 October 20th 1890 Member of: Hope Lodge, Kurrachee, Scinde, India Sir Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer, geographer, translator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[39],"project_tag":[133,94,161,370],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/6176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/6176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6178,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/6176\/revisions\/6178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}