Tales from the Arabian Nights [unspecified selection, tr. Burton]
by Sir Richard Burton
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Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, translator, writer, soldier, spy, fencer, and diplomat. He is most famous for his translations of One Thousand and One Sights and the Kama Sutra and for having been the first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa. He once traveled to Mecca in disguise and spoke nearly thirty languages. He died in 1890.
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- Tales from the Arabian Nights [unspecified selection, tr. Burton]
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- 1885
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- Sir Richard Francis Burton
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